I switched my 32 GB desktop from Windows to Linux and, honestly, 32 GB is probably a waste for most users. I’m using 7/32 GB’s and I’m actively:
Browsing the web (Firefox with 7 tabs open)
Messaging (Signal messenger desktop)
Editing an image (Gimp)
Editing a video (Kdenlive; and granted its a small project)
Email client running (Thunderbird)
Word processor (LibreOffice Writer, just noticed I have it running for no reason)
Listening to music (Gelly)
Bitwarden running in the background
VPN client
qBittorent with 3 active… Linux ISO’s
I just launched Steam and RAM went up to 8 GB’s, which is a fraction of what Windows uses while doing nothing. I can only see myself needing the extra overhead when running VM’s which I don’t see a lot of people wanting to do on a device aimed at gaming.
This is similar to what I’ve experienced too but don’t be surprised if someone tells you that it’s impossible for windows to use less ram than Linux. There’s one of those people in every thread.
Quite literally not how your comment reads to me. It reads as if your experience is that windows can use less but people will argue that it’s not possible.
I switched my 32 GB desktop from Windows to Linux and, honestly, 32 GB is probably a waste for most users. I’m using 7/32 GB’s and I’m actively:
I just launched Steam and RAM went up to 8 GB’s, which is a fraction of what Windows uses while doing nothing. I can only see myself needing the extra overhead when running VM’s which I don’t see a lot of people wanting to do on a device aimed at gaming.
This is similar to what I’ve experienced too but don’t be surprised if someone tells you that it’s impossible for windows to use less ram than Linux. There’s one of those people in every thread.
Huh? He’s literally saying Linux is using way less.
Which is what I’m agreeing with…?
Quite literally not how your comment reads to me. It reads as if your experience is that windows can use less but people will argue that it’s not possible.
Oh shit you’re right. I said that but meant the opposite lol
❯ free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 62Gi 24Gi 4.6Gi 5.8Gi 37Gi 37Gi Swap: 8.0Gi 530Mi 7.5Gino thx
Without context that data means nothing.
Here’s my server (not my desktop) hosting just a few services:
~$ free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 31Gi 3.4Gi 1.7Gi 179Mi 26Gi 27Gi Swap: 34Gi 0B 34GiI am curious, what are you running that’s using that much RAM?
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