I mean, I get the point that Linus was trying to make, but man he really could have worded it better. As it stands it feels like an "akshually" merged with a technicality-gotcha

Maybe because most programs you'd use (browser, word processor, spreadsgeets, etc) requires 8+ gb, and the non-windows side of MS wanted the requirements so edge, word, excel, etc are guaranteed to actually work on every computer that ships with those programs?