all that ram is for my many virtual machines i planned to run and never did because i didn’t actually get any practical use out of them
Containerize everything
Unfortunately I can’t run windows 7 in a docker container for the lickable aero theme and nostalgia. The KDE aero themes just don’t feel the same either. Lots of subtle things missing.
Actually…
holy shit
wait a minute this docker container is just running qemu and a web-based vnc client >:/
Have you tried aerothemeplasma?
There’s still time.
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Meanwhile, the latest macOS update took away 20% of my battery life and added 15% of ram usage, just because, while the battery life of my Linux laptop is actually getting better with updates.
amen brother
Laughs in one year old 128GB RAM on fedora Linux.
Running AI locally?
Nope. Running a windows guest for legacy development (50GB for few bigger visual studio projects and other related apps) then Rider, Android Studio, IntelliJ, podman and other apps native on Linux, often switching between them. 128GB is a bit much even for this, but it is never bad to have same free space just in case. The only downside is that I bought 4 DDR5 modules only to later find out that they put a break on speed as AMD really prefers 2 of them.
50 GB in memory for a visual studio/programming project being a bigger project seems like rather an understatement, unless you’re working on machine learning, simulations, or something of that nature.
That’s a bit small… for disk space 😂😂😂😂😂
You can actually do a lot of stuff with this and no disk at all , just having a 500MB NFS over nas or some 2010 old laptop 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I see you don’t run electron app in flatpaks :)
Don’t forget to allocate the rest to Firefox, and your swap as well since that’s still not enough
Now launch one (1) web browser and watch an elephant drop on your sofa.
The OS is no longer relevant to memory usage, really, not in the way it used to be. The amount of memory required for a usable desktop is peanuts compared to the amount required to run a few web-apps.
One of the many reasons why we need a new and better browser without all the bloat.
That’s half the problem, the sites are the other.
And the third half is bad math
The fourth half is caching
The fifth is your mom.
My guess is that 90% of the growth in browser bloat is to support bloated websites.
These days websites can be games, drawing applications, video players, etc. As a result, browsers have basically become operating systems. In addition, the browsers try to support even the most horribly written websites, but that means more bloat in the browser. Meanwhile faster computers mean that people developing websites are just doing more and more javascript, more and more animation, more and more mouse tracking, etc.
If you have an old device with an old browser, a lot of modern websites are completely unusable. I have an old iPad that’s too old to update, and it’s not actually possible to use browse Github anymore. It just ends up with javascript elements on the page that never finish loading. And Github isn’t some site thrown together by someone vibe-coding their first website or something.
Honestly, the whole model of "you can customize every detail of your page (and not the user) but you also have to implement basic accessibility and consider screen resolution/orientation, reduced-motion, prefers-color-scheme, etc., etc.), for each and every single webpage, is imho inherently broken.
The sad thing is, they could in most things (except reduced/animations) just not do that and the browser does accessibility & stuff for you and you have a lightweight site. But that’s not how businesses (and developer curiosity) work. Also, progressive enhancement instead of graceful degradation most don’t do.
Btw, to the Indieweb: you don’t have to define a text or background color: browser does that already. And you have to care for prefers-color-scheme now. Please keep CSS to layouting.
I am skeptical that the browser is the problem.
Well, no, but the amount of browser-based apps due to their convinience in development is stupid.
Yes
unless you’re using older, more limited hardware in which case you kinda need the OS to not use a shitton of resources so you can actually run programs that do.
i never upgraded the RAM in my thinkpad X230T past 4 GB because on linux with TDE i genuinely don’t need to. i can open multiple instances of waterfox and vivaldi and do a digital painting in krita all at the same time without having to worry about OOM at all.
the difference is night and day compared to trying to do the same on windows or even linux with a heavyweight DE, under which i can maybe get a few tabs open in a single browser before it just freezes.
Tbh if you run qbittorrent you can manually give it as much as you got in the settings.
learned that the swap -> oom way with deluge. It would go overboard if not contained.
just wait until you need to edit some xml in android studio
And don’t you dare compile kotlin and run on emulator while you use Chrome to read stack overflow. Those 128Gb ram from that guy are going to be short.
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what is?
Right, short-circuited Android Studio with Atom, my bad.
32 gigs is quite a bit of a show off in these trying times…
I bought 2x32 ddr4 6months ago for $160. It’s worth about twice that now! I have half a mind to resell it 😭
My unpopular opinion: free ram is useless ram. Go on, OS. Put evertyhing into ram. I have 64GB of it. Fill it the fuck up. I want to be able to open things blazingly fast, that’s why its there. The trick is leaving enough so new things can fit without waiting for cleanup. And windows isn’t bad at scaling its usage. Afaik, wIndows installation on 8GB will use less than the same installation when 16GB is available.
If you had unlimited ram, you’d be mad the OS was wasting time cleaning up behind itself.
It’s not unpopular but only half right. Free RAM already gets used for caching, invisible to you. What you see in the task manager is reserved RAM and that one can’t be used by other applications. If all RAM is reserved, you get pagination or the OOMkiller.
The problem is when one of my two RAM sticks is dedicated to exclusively the microslop spyware and my games can barely run on the leftovers.
I’m playing modded Skyrim with windows, when i used to get crashes the log report almost always have the RAM usage on critical.
When installed some new mods on Linux and they start to crash i was getting “All Good” status on every single log
The rest of the couch is my podman services
The rest of the couch is my podman services
as everything should be
Why are you crying, Windows user?
Same reason as everyone else who waited to upgrade.
haha. I have 32GB of RAM in my server, and even though I run a LOT of stuff, it rarely gets past 6 or 7GB used
Me with ZFS root:
D:
