Comment on I hate Android!

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• amio@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A bunch of the “fediverse” reacts poorly to this. But, speaking as someone who never even considered Apple, using Android doesn’t have to mean it’s smart to go into intentional denial of a long list of shit that sucks, just to be a fanboy.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    using Android doesn’t have to mean it’s smart to go into intentional denial of a long list of shit that sucks, just to be a fanboy.

    No OS can do magic and turn 4GB RAM into a suitable amount for memory hungry modern web browsers.

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    • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My 4GB iPhone 13 mini is working well still. Even my iPad mini 5 from 2020 still works fine with 3GB of ram.

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• ascendings@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean to be fair I hate Android too, I just also hate iOS :)

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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Although I am mildly infuriated that you hate Android

  OP uses 4GB RAM but blames the OS.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And he’s right with that.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Android does need a lot of ram these days especially if you are running stock

    I personally wouldn’t use a phone with 4GB unless my usecase was fairly basic. If you are running multiple (Heavy) websites and apps the system will need to use swap will slow down multitasking

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    • supermarkus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I personally wouldn’t use a phone with 4GB unless my usecase was fairly basic. If you are running multiple (Heavy) websites and apps the system will need to use swap will slow down multitasking.

      A couple of months ago I revived an old x86 tablet using postmarketOS. No Android anywhere. The only somewhat usable browser I could find was Falkon. Firefox was absolutely unusable. Ungoogled Chromium was a bit better but overall still shitty. Opening a second tab under Falkon was too much as well. The problematic component was 100% the web browser and there Firefox specifically. OP writes that he opened Firefox and I can confirm from my own experience of using Firefox on a RAM constrained non-Android device that FF is terrible in such scenarios. FF is great otherwise but not when RAM is low.

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Android probably would’ve been a slightly better experience as it is designed to work in low ram scenarios

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