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It's just the price of progress. When I started playing with Linux, a full fledged Linux desktop with web browser and all ran very happily on a machine with 16
by bityard 10mo ago
It's just the price of progress. When I started playing with Linux, a full fledged Linux desktop with web browser and all ran very happily on a machine with 16 megabytes of RAM. At the time, there were distributions that fit on a floppy disk.
Both are more or less impossible now, but I don't think we should think of 100mb of "background state" as bloated. The fact that your can get a lot of useful stuff done on Linux in under 512mb in 2026 while Windows and Mac need multiple GB just to get out of bed is pretty awesome.
- andai 10mo agoSo... what's the progress exactly? Everything is bloated now and looks way less cool!
- array_key_first 10mo agoLots of this is more aggressive caching and pre-allocation. Also, most Linux apps, both gui and console, are C and C++. They're basically almost as fast as they can get.