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8GiB is still very common, and it's not hard to find cheaper laptops with 4GiB... I don't think your average person's laptop has as ridiculously large amounts o

• Aurornis 2y ago
  > I don't think your average person's laptop has as ridiculously large amounts of RAM as you seem to think Your average person isn’t running Linux or compiling things. The comment was in the context of developer laptops.
  • pantalaimon 2y ago
    Not every developer always has the biggest and latest laptop.
  • arp242 2y ago
    I run Linux and have 8G and compile things. Works fine. Currently ~/.cache is 2G, but that's because I cleared out ~/.cache/go just yesterday after compiling ~1000 Go modules for some testing, which bloated it to >50G.
    • nottorp 2y ago
      What kills your ram is not compiling things but the browser and those Electron apps. (Well and Yocto builds, but that's not your average 'compiling things'.)
  • mort96 2y ago
    Fair. I read the comment as, more or less, "the typical laptop has so much RAM these days that putting ~/.cache on tmpfs would be a reasonable default" or something like that. But I guess it could -- and should -- be read as, "if you spend a bunch extra on RAM, you can get laptops with so much RAM these days that you can consider putting ~/.cache on tmpfs", which is reasonable enough.