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Do you have any real hard data that lets you to claim that macOS or iOS are more efficient than Linux or even Windows?

• bzzzt 3y ago
  I think it comes down to a few design decisions like not standardizing on a VM based language with GC (like Java/.NET) which leads to more memory consumption. Only allowing a single browser engine will also keep memory usage lower on iOS. Apple was also early with a good memory compression implementation. Of course, nothing will help you if you really want to run horrible applications, but at least the base system is optimized. You can run quite a lot of workloads even on an 8Gb Mac.
  • ladyanita22 3y ago
    In my experience desktop linux is significantly lighter than macOS though
    • bzzzt 3y ago
      Depends on what desktop you use. A full Gnome or KDE desktop will eat a lot of memory.
      • ladyanita22 3y ago
        Gnome uses 2GB at most when not memory-constrained.