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32GB should be more than enough. You can go 16GB if you go native and throw some assembly in the mix. Use old school scripting languages. Debloat browsers. It
by fithisux 10mo ago
32GB should be more than enough.
You can go 16GB if you go native and throw some assembly in the mix. Use old school scripting languages. Debloat browsers.
It has been long delayed.
- Night_Thastus 10mo ago16GB is more than fine if you're not doing high-end gaming, or heavy production workloads. No need for debloating. But it doesn't matter either way, because both 16 and 32GB have what, doubled, tripled? It's nuts. Even if you say "just buy less memory", now is a horrible time to be building a system.
- Aardwolf 10mo agoI found web browser tabs eating too much memory when you only have 16GB
- Night_Thastus 10mo agoThat's strange. How many tabs are we talking? Are they running something intense or just ordinary webpages?
- Aardwolf 10mo agoI usually end up with a couple of browser windows on each of the 4 virtual desktops, and each window will collect a lot of tabs
- prmoustache 10mo agoUse adblock, stop visiting nasty websites and open less tabs. Problem is easily solved.
- 1718627440 10mo agoWith that much RAM, you could fit multiple OSes entirely into memory. That is simply a lot.
- Aardwolf 10mo agoDepending on which OS we're talking, this could fit thousands of OSes, this could fit 4000 DOS + windows 3.11 sessions :)
- felixfurtak 10mo ago“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” - Bill Gates
- shawndumas 10mo agothere's no reliable evidence he ever uttered that phrase
- felixfurtak 10mo agoDoesn't matter. It's folklore.
- franciscojs 10mo agoI bought a motherboard to build a DIY NAS... takes DDR5 SO-DIMM RAM and only 16gb costs more than double the motherboard (which includes an intel processor)
- harvey9 10mo agoHey, hey 16k What does that get you today? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IagZIM9MtLo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IagZIM9MtLo
- khannn 10mo ago16GB is more than enough on Linux, but Win11 eats resources like crazy
- anthk 10mo agoI'm using 1GB with TWM, DIllo, TUI tools, XTerm, MuPDF and the like. As most tools are small from https://t3x.org https://t3x.org, https://luxferre.top https://luxferre.top and https://howerj.github.io/subleq.htm https://howerj.github.io/subleq.htm with EForth, (and I try to use cparser instead of) clang, my requeriments are really tiny. You can achieve a lot by learning Klong and reading the intro on statistics. And xargs to paralelize stuff. Oh, and vidir to edit directories at crazy speeds with any editor, even nano or gedit if you like them.
- Forgeties79 10mo agoSure but 32GB DDR5 ram has just jumped from ~$100 to $300+ in a flash. The 2x16GB I have in my recent build went from $105 for the pair to $250 each. $500 total! SSD’s are also up. Hell I am seeing refurbished enterprise HDD’s at 2x right now. It’s sharp increases basically across the board except for CPU’s/GPU’s. Every PC build basically just cranked up $400-$600 easily, and that’s not accounting for the impact of inflation over the last few years weakening everyone’s wallets. The $1600 machine I spec’d out for my buddy 5 weeks ago to buy parts for this Black Friday now runs $2k even.
- paulddraper 10mo agoHelp I opened multiple tabs at once.
- astrange 10mo agoIt's the websites that are bloated, not the browsers. (Well, maybe they are too, but it's secondary.) Visit any news site or any Fandom wiki and then check eg Firefox about:memory. It'll be a lot. And for security reasons, different tabs can't easily share resources like you might expect them to.