Optimal Hardware Requirements are growing drastically fast. A few years ago , when my first computer came with 2 GB of RAM , It ran pretty smooth under moderate use. A few years later , 8 GB of RAM and the computer starts choking on Running 1 Virtual Machine.

Virtual Machine? When I use two window of google chrome, one window with incognito, both window having somewhere around 5-6 tabs along with some other casual programs, my 8 GB ram starts giving me signal to close some shit.

I may have a different perspective on that. My current cpu is 6 years old and works fine for todays software and games. 6 years was a lot when i startet with computers,it's the time between Doom(1993) and Quake3(1999). Q3 would not run very well on a pc from 1993. So no, no drastic rise in requirements in the last years compared to the 20 years before.

Running VMs on a normal pc takes it's share if performance and memory, but it's two systems running on the same hardware, sharing the same bottlenecks. Of course that is challenging for your pc.

Btw. do you have a ssd drive?

@CWins Nope . Plain old HDD. Maybe that's one of the reasons.

@arpitbatra
A fast hdd helps, if your OSs have to put some data on the hdd ( and is awesome anyways ). But of course more RAM will still be a better solution if you're working with VMs, especially if it's more than one.