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4 days agoI switched my 32 GB desktop from Windows to Linux and, honestly, 32 GB is probably a waste for most users. I’m using 7/32 GB’s and I’m actively:
- Browsing the web (Firefox with 7 tabs open)
- Messaging (Signal messenger desktop)
- Editing an image (Gimp)
- Editing a video (Kdenlive; and granted its a small project)
- Email client running (Thunderbird)
- Word processor (LibreOffice Writer, just noticed I have it running for no reason)
- Listening to music (Gelly)
- Bitwarden running in the background
- VPN client
- qBittorent with 3 active… Linux ISO’s
I just launched Steam and RAM went up to 8 GB’s, which is a fraction of what Windows uses while doing nothing. I can only see myself needing the extra overhead when running VM’s which I don’t see a lot of people wanting to do on a device aimed at gaming.
Without context that data means nothing.
Here’s my server (not my desktop) hosting just a few services:
~$ free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 31Gi 3.4Gi 1.7Gi 179Mi 26Gi 27Gi Swap: 34Gi 0B 34GiI am curious, what are you running that’s using that much RAM?