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NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• blah3166@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huh? He’s literally saying Linux is using way less.

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Which is what I’m agreeing with…?

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  • de_lancre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s cool and all when we are talking about native apps, but in modern day and age most of the work tools for remote work is usually in the browser. And in browser if page takes 1gb of ram on windows, it will take same 1gb of ram on linux. It just how it is.

    On top of that, things like discord (unofficial clients banned, mind you), Spotify, vscode, etc. all use electron, which means just another browser.

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

     ❯ free -h
                   total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:            62Gi        24Gi       4.6Gi       5.8Gi        37Gi        37Gi
    Swap:          8.0Gi       530Mi       7.5Gi
    
    

    no thx

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    • blah3166@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Without context that data means nothing.

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      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        34Gi
      

      • Jellyfin
      • homeassistant
      • jfa-go
      • traefik
      • glances
      • minecraft
      • nomadnet
      • rnsd
      • mumble
      • ersatztv
      • wireguard

      I am curious, what are you running that’s using that much RAM?

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      • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Two web browsers and vscode (so another web browser… Sigh). No other dev stuff though as that’s all remote.

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• pewpew@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  16 GB is perfectly usable even for heavy games, it’s still more than what the PS5 has (which is 16GB but shared with the GPU)

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  • dreamkeeper@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The PS5 is about to be a last gen console. I would absolutely not buy a new PC without 32GB of RAM. But gamers have to defend literally everything gabe does no matter what.

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• Asafum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I graduated highschool in 2004, so I’d say roughly around 2002 I was marveling at the massive 1GB hard drive my friend got lol

  I think 16GB of ram would have blown our minds.

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I bought a 16Gb laptop in 2012, which is out of the noughties, but still 14 fucking years ago.

    14 years before that I had 32Mb; a 500* multiplier.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Huh, I got a PC in 1997 with a 2GB hard drive. It didn’t take long (a year or so) for that to start feeling small compared to others my friend had. He got an 8 GB HD in probably 1998 and a 20 GB shortly after. It was ram I remember being so small. That PC I mentioned from 97 had 24 MB RAM which was good in 1997. It took a couple of years for anyone I knew to exceed 64 MB.

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  • Thunderbird4@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    More than 4GB of RAM isn’t even addressable with a 32-bit OS like we had back then.

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  • runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When I was a in high school Staples ran a deal for a 64GB flashdrive for $32 (1/2 off). My mom and I each bought 1 and it was such a steal! I felt like the coolest nerd at school with so much capacity! I considered trying to install UT2004 on it to play at school (I never did but knew nothing about computers and thought it’d work at that age).

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  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gonna guess you mean USB drive, and not HDD.

    In 2004, 256 and 512 GB HDDs were pretty standard, and if you had some extra budget to throw at a PC, you could get a 1TB.

    My budget laptop in 2004 had a 256GB HDD, 256MB RAM (quickly upgraded to 768MB) and like a 1ghz dual core processor.

    I remember having a 512MB usb stick and thinking that I would never have to delete anything off it, because I would never have enough word docs or projects at school to fill it up all the way.

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• papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean we are in the 2000’s

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• Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is it even 16gb of ram or is 8 gb set aside for the GPU?

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