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in fact even increased RAM use doesn't matter at all if it makes the system faster and more responsive. for some reason, people keep looking at it from a warped
by sedatk 11y ago
in fact even increased RAM use doesn't matter at all if it makes the system faster and more responsive. for some reason, people keep looking at it from a warped perspective.
- bsilvereagle 11y agoAn Arch Linux install with i3 as the window manager will consume <300MB of RAM and be (subjectively) more responsive than Windows. On the same machine, a default Windows 7 install will take 1.6GB of RAM. I think it's a baseline like this that leaves people wondering why Windows by default needs to consume large amounts of RAM.
- ac29 11y ago>On the same machine, a default Windows 7 install will take 1.6GB of RAM. Are you sure about that? https://i.imgur.com/jXRrEJS.png https://i.imgur.com/jXRrEJS.png My mostly stock install of Win8.1 seems to use less than 600MB at idle. I 100% agree with you that Linux can be more efficient (that screenshot was taken from a VM running on Linux, which is my primary OS), but Windows isn't that awful memory wise.
- chadgeidel 11y agoI paid good money for that RAM. I don't want it to go to waste.