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Comment on 8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple

luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

On my unix-based system, after boot I’m sitting at 2gb usage, while Windows would be at >6GB, so it’s not that far fetched. Until you try to run any applications…

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Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Windows only takes a lot of RAM if it’s available. Try it out with less RAM and it’s more around 2 GB I think.

For any computer I use 32 GB seems to be the optimum nowadays.

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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Exactly so. Windows eats what it can and leave $X free.
  
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sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m sitting at 300 mb usage after boot running Linux and at 250 mb usage on a secondary machine running OpenBSD.

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- luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Are you using a desktop environment?
  
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  - sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    in Linux I use Sway, although I have XFCE installed as a backup.
    
    I think that what makes a major difference is disabling all the trash services that distributions have enabled by default and most users never make use of. To be fair, I disable Bluetooth too, that people find useful. But I don’t think that would make that much of a difference.
    
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