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> Modern Gnome and KDE distros with batteries included also idea at around 2GB RAM Really? I'm seeing 1.3 for Mint/Cinnamon.
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Please consider being more kind and charitable to others, before you make your own demands.
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Less than that, between 900MB and 1.2GB and that's due to file and stuff indexation. The good thing on Linux and BSDs is you can swap for a light wm/compositor and your back below 150MB idle.
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> a sustained form of deception which consists of entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings while acting as if influenced by another.
The reason this advice is bizarre is that old memory isn't actually that dear. The machines that would have had 2GB of RAM or less would be from the Core 2 Duo era or so, taking DDR2 or DDR3, and typically supported 8-16GB. 8GB of DDR3 is currently in the ballpark of $10 and the machines that take it can be found by the pallet in the "free e-waste" pile, so who is going to suffer <2GB instead of 8GB over $10?
With laptops of this era you only have two sodimm slots and DDR2 4GB RAM modules were quite expensive when they were new. So even still today they are more expensive than you would think. I sold mine for $25/each a few weeks ago. Also some laptops of this era didn't support more than 4-6GB of RAM in the firmware. I know there are several models of early intel macbooks that you can physically install 8GB of RAM but th…
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It is not "bad faith" to assert experiences that differ from yours. "Bad faith" is (per Wikipedia) > a sustained form of deception which consists of entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings while acting as if influenced by another.
Hence why it's a bad faith comment. It moves the goalposts to throws bs accusations without facts to back it up as a valid argument.
There are plenty of retrocomputing hobbyists who will appreciate these 32-bit machines, especially as they become more and more rare. Remove the CMOS battery, store it away for 10 years and then sell it for a nice profit on ebay. Assuming you have the free space, that is)
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Its a pathetic world.. and sad.. I have currently 2 browsers open and my memory commit is 370MB.. If I hear that Win11 uses 3GB of RAM idling, I really get shivers... WTF?! How is that even possible? Bloat is astronomical and yet.. Most people just does NOT care...
> I have currently 2 browsers open and my memory commit is 370MB.. In what context? >If I hear that Win11 uses 3GB of RAM idling Modern Gnome and KDE distros with batteries included also idea at around 2GB RAM which is a useless metric anyway as Windows 11 also preloads frequently used takes and apps on boot.
Of course, progress needs to be done. Better graphics, more data.. But now all the consumption goes into shitty decoration with is useless and waste resources.
Other big usage is all that ads and tracking shit behind the scene..
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It is not "bad faith" to assert experiences that differ from yours. "Bad faith" is (per Wikipedia) > a sustained form of deception which consists of entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings while acting as if influenced by another.
That didn't answer my original question: which modern batteries-included linux distro competing with macos or windows 11 idles at 150mb? Hence why it's a bad faith comment. It moves the goalposts to throws bs accusations without facts to back it up as a valid argument.
I tested it on Fedora. I tend to use Gnome as a main desktop s I like all the bell and whistles but use lighter config on VMs to save on RAM use. I reckon you could probably go below 100MB with a distro that doesn't use systemd.
Have a bit of decency and try it before talking about bad faith.
No thanks.
Slackware's running just fine on this system I've got with 15 year old DDR3 RAM without needing an article about it. It's not always thrilled with the fact that I made my urxvt's transparent, but I'm still rocking 20 open tabs on a regular basis without more than a little extra fan noise from time to time. It'd probably help if I replaced the fan(s) that died completely...
> They are slow because Windows got heavier while the hardware stayed the same. That is not true. They are slow, because ALL software got better and more advanced and that is not only the operating system. It always makes me mad when people say that macOS is so optimized you can do more than on windows. No. Old hardware not having a hardware decoder for modern youtube videos won't play them. Modern webpages full of i…
What about not piping 20MB of JavaScript to the user just to change the color of a button instead?
Anyway, what's 20mb for 2gb ram pc? Nothing. That is not an issue.