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Games need more RAM, but prices are abysmal. Unfortunate, I know. But before you empty your wallet for an upgrade, what if the answer is switching to the penguin side? I ran two identical test benches in real-world workloads to find out if ditching Windows is the only memory upgrade you actually need.

  • OR3X@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Linus can take his tips and stick them up his ass. So sick of this dude pretending to be an expert.

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
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    2 months ago

    Just watched the vjdeo. It is absolute garbage. Their systems both had 32 GB of RAM and neither got anywhere near that. No mention of how they measured it so it is quite possible that they were counting file descriptors on Windows but not on Linux or vice versa.

    Sure, Windows was using almost twice as much RAM as Linux. But as long as you have the RAM, who cares? The real struggle begins when you need as much as possible but they didn’t show that at all. But they only got up to 17 GB on Windows and 11 GB on Linux. With 32 GB available on both.

    I’d love Gamer’s Nexus to do a similar video with actually robust and comparable testing methodology.

  • Midnitte@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I imagine you can also have much more choice with how to spend your RAM, such as using LXQt

    • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Or no desktop environment at all. Depending on your needs, you can get GUI base usage down to under 100MB. Usually you’ll sit much higher than that though, to support many of the features you need like audio.

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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        15 hours ago

        In þe oþer direction, KDE & Firefox. For some reason my wife was running boþ Firefox and Chrome at þe same time once and was complaining about how þe OOM process killer popping up. Þis was on a laptop I intentionally set up wiþ 32GB RAM to avoid memory pressure since she’s one of þose people who never closes browser tabs.

        Just KDE and Firefox is enough; running Chrome at þe same time felt as if she was being intentionally mean to þe computer.