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LOL, just turning on Windows will blow that up. Then, opening Chrome… LMAO. Can you even run on 4GB of RAM anymore? Like, Raspberry Pis have over 4GB now.
You absolutely can. I have Linux with Hyprland and it is less than 2gb doing nothing. You can probably run ARM boards and do the same. I think with browser it is still less than 4Gb. Your system just needs to be free of corporate garbage.
I guess if you’re running 32-bit, but in 64-bit land the word size is double so it’ll barebones run on double the 32-bit system (at minimum). Once you open a modern browser, it opens like 6 tabs (with a blank tab); there are background tabs. Pictures and active media consume a large amount of bandwidth and memory, which is a con against the modern web. I guess we should go back to BBSs.
I also don’t run “corporate garbage.” I use FOSS exclusively. But Windows, and its svchost’d jobs, eats over 2GiB ram idling.
Right, but the browser hasn’t opened any web pages yet and you have not started your IDE (for example, Rust Analyzer takes a massive amount of RAM) and so on.
I think 8GB is probably a little bit more realistic, workable with, but likely still a lot of pain…
I generally support the sentiment.
Though here I am with 64GB and it’s still often swapping. (I’m already running optimized Linux)
Up until very recently (its system drive blew up) I was running a server (raspberry pi zero 2 w) with 512MB of RAM. It werked fine. At any moment I had ~1/4 of the RAM free. And I was running a bunch of services, like ssh, unbound, pi-hole, opentracker and a test website.
I also have another machine with 2GB of RAM running bookstack, an ssh gateway, opentracker, a KMS for activating windows machines, another website, naemon with the thruk frontend and probably something else I’m forgetting abt.
LOL, just turning on Windows will blow that up. Then, opening Chrome… LMAO. Can you even run on 4GB of RAM anymore? Like, Raspberry Pis have over 4GB now.
OS developers should be banned from having more than 2GiB of RAM too.
You absolutely can. I have Linux with Hyprland and it is less than 2gb doing nothing. You can probably run ARM boards and do the same. I think with browser it is still less than 4Gb. Your system just needs to be free of corporate garbage.
I guess if you’re running 32-bit, but in 64-bit land the word size is double so it’ll barebones run on double the 32-bit system (at minimum). Once you open a modern browser, it opens like 6 tabs (with a blank tab); there are background tabs. Pictures and active media consume a large amount of bandwidth and memory, which is a con against the modern web. I guess we should go back to BBSs.
I also don’t run “corporate garbage.” I use FOSS exclusively. But Windows, and its svchost’d jobs, eats over 2GiB ram idling.
I have a console window open on my debian desktop that is eating 5.1gb.
That’s almost all just text in the tabs.
Stuff also just takes a lot of memory.
Right, but the browser hasn’t opened any web pages yet and you have not started your IDE (for example, Rust Analyzer takes a massive amount of RAM) and so on.
I think 8GB is probably a little bit more realistic, workable with, but likely still a lot of pain…
I generally support the sentiment. Though here I am with 64GB and it’s still often swapping. (I’m already running optimized Linux)
Up until very recently (its system drive blew up) I was running a server (raspberry pi zero 2 w) with 512MB of RAM. It werked fine. At any moment I had ~1/4 of the RAM free. And I was running a bunch of services, like ssh, unbound, pi-hole, opentracker and a test website.
I also have another machine with 2GB of RAM running bookstack, an ssh gateway, opentracker, a KMS for activating windows machines, another website, naemon with the thruk frontend and probably something else I’m forgetting abt.