I am reading that alot of users had issues with the 8gig model. If you have 8gigs, did you experience any perfomance issues?

I did - I believed all the '8 gig is fine' stuff at the beginning, and didn't like how much Apple charged for RAM. But for my work anyway it often starts having stuttering and slowness issues if I have too many things open. Otherwise it's quite fast.

hm okay so i will maybe get the 16 gig version better

I have the 16 gig version since 2020. Overall its the best machine I have ever owned but even then, maybe in 10% of the cases when too many chrome tabs are opened, VSCode and a bunch of other apps are in, I can sometimes notice the slow down but its not super critical.

I did have severe issues with Kernel Panics, the laptop would just blink a pink pixelated screen and restart but that has been fixed.

Yeah, I have the M1 2020 with 8gigs and 512ssd. I encounter some issues when I use it for development.

I had 16g though. 8g would be horrible.