I remember running OpenBSD on my laptop in the early 2000s at a total system memory use of 26MB. Running Dillo instead of Firefox, vi (or vim) for coding, and

I remember running OpenBSD on my laptop in the early 2000s at a total system memory use of 26MB. Running Dillo instead of Firefox, vi (or vim) for coding, and twm as window manager. That was super low even back then. I think the only unavoidable memory hog nowadays is wanting to have many browser tabs open. And having a heavy IDE; VSCode is pretty cheap on resource use, but with LSP support you can really feel a difference with a better CPU and enough RAM.