I'm by no means a Google shill, but RAM is meant to be used. What's the point of my RAM if it's just going to sit there...doing nothing, gathering dust, all the

I'm by no means a Google shill, but RAM is meant to be used. What's the point of my RAM if it's just going to sit there...doing nothing, gathering dust, all the time? I read some comments complaining about slowdowns and I just have to chuckle. You do realise computing technology grows exponentially with time, right? Your hardware is outdated by the time you get your hands on it, and only gets worse performance-wise as time progresses. This has been true in literally every era of personal computers. You can't seriously expect a CPU from nearly a decade ago and, what I assume, barely 6GB of RAM to sustain your 10+ tabs, YouTube videos in HD/4K/etc, and your heavy workloads outside of the browser at the same time without some slowdown. I'd agree that modern browsers (and applications in general) have become more resource hungry, but do you think these new and fancy features come without a cost? If you're so concerned with memory usage, why not use wget instead of a browser?