It sounds like you have a lot of experience with running out of memory that I don’t have. I’m curious – how much ram do you have in the laptop you switched to windows? I don’t think I’ve experienced running out of memory recently. Been running Linux for like 3 years now and I’ve always felt every possible aspect is far snappier. Regarding ops comment about windows being the ram problem, I think they just were referring to it using a lot of ram, which it does. You’re calling it a few Mb and that’s just not accurate. I can’t say for sure what exact difference it was for me, but years ago I compared windows 10 to pop os. I think the difference was not far from a GB. And we can split hairs about what specifically occupies ram. Services, kernel, third party apps. The fact is that windows culture is different in a very bad way. You have to opt out of apps running on startup constantly, manually checking settings under an “advanced” tab often… I vastly prefer the culture of bloat being opt-in in almost every case. There are dozens of reasons I prefer Linux but the fact that it just runs faster without effort specifically to make that happen, is atop the list.
Another relevant twist of the knife on the Linux side is thunderbird not having a tray icon
What would you need one for?
What is the purpose of an email client that doesn’t stay running 24/7?
Genuinely confused here. To receive email? What’s the purpose of leaving it running all the time? The only difference in the setup I have and what you seem to want is that instead of clicking an email icon on the dock and waiting ~1second, you want to see a notification in the tray? Given that email is 90% noise no matter how many things I unsubscribe from, the last thing I want is a constant stream of notifications on yet another device.
I feel like specifically because I run Linux all my apps launch faster so yes I prefer to close them when not in use. Feels a lot cleaner for my mental model. Don’t get me wrong, I often run 6-8 apps at a time if I need to. But even then I don’t think I go much beyond 8 GB of ram used, unless I’m gaming.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It sounds like you have a lot of experience with running out of memory that I don’t have. I’m curious – how much ram do you have in the laptop you switched to windows? I don’t think I’ve experienced running out of memory recently. Been running Linux for like 3 years now and I’ve always felt every possible aspect is far snappier. Regarding ops comment about windows being the ram problem, I think they just were referring to it using a lot of ram, which it does. You’re calling it a few Mb and that’s just not accurate. I can’t say for sure what exact difference it was for me, but years ago I compared windows 10 to pop os. I think the difference was not far from a GB. And we can split hairs about what specifically occupies ram. Services, kernel, third party apps. The fact is that windows culture is different in a very bad way. You have to opt out of apps running on startup constantly, manually checking settings under an “advanced” tab often… I vastly prefer the culture of bloat being opt-in in almost every case. There are dozens of reasons I prefer Linux but the fact that it just runs faster without effort specifically to make that happen, is atop the list.
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Interesting take…
What would you need one for?
Genuinely confused here. To receive email? What’s the purpose of leaving it running all the time? The only difference in the setup I have and what you seem to want is that instead of clicking an email icon on the dock and waiting ~1second, you want to see a notification in the tray? Given that email is 90% noise no matter how many things I unsubscribe from, the last thing I want is a constant stream of notifications on yet another device.
I feel like specifically because I run Linux all my apps launch faster so yes I prefer to close them when not in use. Feels a lot cleaner for my mental model. Don’t get me wrong, I often run 6-8 apps at a time if I need to. But even then I don’t think I go much beyond 8 GB of ram used, unless I’m gaming.
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 2 months ago