Nor would I, but if apps were actually optimized instead of the Electron nonsense we have now we’d be in a better place. I really hope this forces us to finally build better again instead of relying on infinite resources.
Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices
Damarus@feddit.org 21 hours agoI wouldn’t be happy with 8 GB of RAM regardless of OS.
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
uranibaba@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Same, I am often about 8 GB of RAM with my daily usage.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Debian keeps barfing on me with 16.
kill_dash_nine@lemmy.zip 27 minutes ago
What sort of apps are you running?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 hours ago
Heh, I have 64 and still can run out. Teams and Outlook for work, one or two java projects in IntelliJ, rust project in Neovim… try to build and run tests with maven and I’m at 70-80% easily. Couple more tabs like discord and I’m out of memory.
Damarus@feddit.org 8 hours ago
I feel that. My new workstation will have 128 GB, I’m very excited about it