>As I sit here writing this I have two apps actually open in the foreground on my PC; Firefox and Telegram Desktop. And according to Task Manager, I’m using 55%

>As I sit here writing this I have two apps actually open in the foreground on my PC; Firefox and Telegram Desktop. And according to Task Manager, I’m using 55% of my available memory. Author has a severe misunderstanding about how RAM is "used" actually allocated. The exact same system he has but with 8GB RAM would probably be at 70-80% ram usage or so. The reason why he reaches 8GB+ on his machines so fast is because he has 16GB. Nothing is more useless than empty RAM (in a PC at least). The OS does and should use as much ram as possible if there is plenty RAM left. The system is fast if the RAM is used not if it is free.