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.