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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.

  • 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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      7 days 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.