Comment on I hate Android!
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 2 days agoYou have no idea what Android or iOS or Windows or any other operating system is doing in the background though, you just think it’s “bloat” and “inefficient”. I guarantee you that the people making these OS’s know more about it than you, and are making it as efficient as it can be.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
well actually, yes we do know, by actually checking. You cannot guarantee anything.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How are you checking what closed source systems are doing?
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
What do you think they’re doing that requires gigabytes of ram?
Thinking having a cellular connection is significantly any more memory intensive than a wifi or ethernet connection tells me that it’s you who doesn’t have the faintest idea of anything. You’re projecting
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
They’re using it for who knows how many dozens of things - simply a look at task manager on windows. They’re preloading heavens knows what to make the users experience better.
You’re talking about closed source operating systems and how they shouldn’t be using the ram that is available to them, and you think that I don’t have the faintest idea? 🤣
RAM is there to be used. You’re never using too much ram until you need to use more ram than you have. I’d have no issue with my windows using 60GB of RAM while “idling” if it makes the experience better, which it could.