Yeah, I know. And I'm scaling down with all of those, too (eventually). It's just ... I have to start somewhere. And I've decided Element is the first to go. Gnome is kind of nice. And works well on a touchscreen. And I sometimes need WebRTC, mic/camera and video in my browser.

I can use a more lightweight browser for my daily use and maybe get organized and close tabs and use bookmarks. I like the concept of tiling window managers, so maybe I'm going for something like Sway next. I've had used Xfce for a bit, but that also uses quite a lot of RAM (for something that claims to be lightweight?). And changing from KDE/Gnome comes with quite a lot of choices for alternative programs and new little helpers to get accustomed to. From the little thing that shows me the time in the US and the weather in front of my own door to the calculator to the default mail client. It's a bit more complicated and just takes a bit of time.

Using mail 24/7 was a bit of an exaggeration. I'm using it in a healthy way. But It is useful to get for example the notification that a parcel is getting delivered today, to talk to companies and people who don't own a proper messenger. At least I'm okay with the 5 spam mails while everybody around me is getting constant notifications because some friend sent some deep motivational quote on WhatsApp.

Thank you all for the suggestions. Now I have to have a closer look at each of them. It's just, I've been annoyed a bit lately. I think 8GB should be plenty and enough to not worry about RAM and just use any application and open as much as you like.