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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Android probably would’ve been a slightly better experience as it is designed to work in low ram scenarios
  
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