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The computer in which I tested KDE used a Pentium D low-end processor. DDR2 RAM memory. It used 2 GB in the begining, but a module got broken so I tested it with just a module of 1 GB of RAM.
For GNOME, I would recommend 3 GB of RAM for use in offices and Intel Celeron N2xxx which is the lowest hardware I tested in both builds (x86_32 and x86_64). Well, I tested it too with 2 GB of RAM but using 32 bits builds.
Don't worry at all about this. At least in my case, you can trust I use to test it in low-end hardware as I don't see necessary more for most people. I even finished SysAdmin vocational training course (well, I need to do the practices in a real company yet) with similar similar specs but increasing RAM to 8 GB for several VMs and finishing using no more than 4 GB in general (and most of my classmates suffering with 8th Gen i5 processors and 16 GB of RAM).
Thanks for sharing your experience on low end hardware my dude, i really appreciated it, that will help me a lot, thank you.