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RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components
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And here I am resurrecting Dell laptops from 2010 with 1.5gb DDR RAM and Debian
I remember when they changed the backronym for Emacs from "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" to Eighty. Megabytes. Or when a Netscape developer was proud to overtake that memory use.
What's the point of more RAM and faster processors if we just make applications that much less efficient?
"unused ram is wasted ram"
yeah yeah yeah, great. but all you motherfuckers did that and i'm fucking out of ram.
This phrase is just plain wrong. Unused ram is used for the page cache by the kernel. You must always have some ram free or else the whole system will not operate without a page cache. Larger page cache allows to cache more files from the file system.
I want to run more than 1 process thanks. So fuck off with you trying to eat 3GB to render a bit of text.
Linux is bae