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NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• pewpew@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• blah3166@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• Asafum@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean we are in the 2000’s

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