Why should the OS itself, which is just supposed to facilitate the running of programs, use so much memory?
TL;DR: to spy on you.
Right?! I have a debian NAS running openmediavault, it has music streaming and samba network shares. it only has 256MB RAM and doesn’t even use all that.
In the middle of a RAM pricing crisis? Fuck off microslop.
32gb is the new standard they need to run poorly optimized start menus and telemetry in the background while they think no one is paying attention
In reality, if software used the native UI toolkits instead of Electron, even 12 GB could be reliably used for gaming, HEAVY gaming.
Ofc if your OS needs just 6-7GB only for running itself and nothing else…
Wow. Not too transparent are they? RAM prices go up worldwide. Microsoft - “We need you to buy more RAM to successfully run are mostly unnecessary, bloated crap”.
Linux says “Hold my beer…” https://youtu.be/LJEo6Kb6Rhg
Been using CachyOS the past while on my gaming laptop, it’s stupid how much better it is with zero extra steps other than basic install. Can’t recommend it enough.
Meanwhile i have a linux server that’s currently running individual LXC containers for hosting
Snipe-it, zammad, paperlessNGX, wiki.js, rustdesk server, firefly III, flare, among a few other things. And it’s barely using 6GB total. Less than windows sitting at desktop these days. It’s pathetic how bad windows has become.
Been that way for awhile but I imagine the ram shortage is going to lower it to 8.
The only thing that needs so much RAM to fill my 32gb is local LLMs. (No, I’m not an Ai bro, just play around with it mostly.) On my old machine I never filled 16gb, and on this “new” machine I do not fill 32gb either with regular usage. 16gb is still pretty fine, if you do not use your computer like an animal and think about the applications you re using.
I’ve got 128Gb in my 20c/40t system, and 256Gb in my 44c/88t system.
But then again, I don’t game. I do a lot of data crunching, and let other apps like BOINC do their own thing when I’m not actively working.
32 would have been better for my OS and work need.
