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As a normal, boring user that does nothing special other than browse the internet and the occasional "casual coding" -- what am I supposed to do with 32GiB of ram? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by GustavoM@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Title. Besides setting tmpfs to use 10GiB of it to store downloads.

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[–] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just wait. In 10 years 32 gig is on the low side to just run the OS. Hardware getest faster and bigger, but software scales with it.

The more resources are available, the more people will program computers to use them.

My first graphics card had 128mb memory. These days it goes in gigabyte and they use the memory and processing power to produce amazing things.

On the other hand, they also are not as critical on efficiëncy as used to be, because there are simply more resources available anyway. As a consequence, some programs use a silly amount of resources for basically doing nothing. Sometimes I really feel like my browser is eating RAM.....

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

After boot, I'm using 2GB. I haven't noticed Linux doing the ram-hog thing like Windows at all. But Firefox is currently using 8GB.

Just restarted Firefox and it's using 2.5GB now. I think it stores a lot in ram from video.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Linux definitely hogs RAM, in htop that's the yellow bar (I think) . It's mostly file caches that can get dropped quite fast, but still.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

And that is so annoying, especially on my phone.

My phone does more or less the same tasks as its predecessor did 10 years ago. Yet, I'm running around with a computer in my pocket that would be considered a high end gaming machine 10 years ago.

It's a waste of money and resources, just because these valley idiots kept pushing inefficient shit on us and every company agreed that client hardware is essentially free to them.

Our phones could be a quarter of the price and the batteries last 5 times as long if the industry would get its shit together.

[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Build android