• Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    That’s the thing. WHY should it need that? What is the OS doing that could possibly justify that level of memory use?

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      11 months ago
      • The browser
      • Electron apps
      • Prefetching
      • AI shit/telemetry

      Other than a browser, I had none of these on my Linux machine and I could comfortably run on 4GB of RAM