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screen shot of memory usage by app, showing Firefox using over 18GB of RAM

I also don’t understand why every chat app needs 1GB of RAM to itself.

      • Dave@lemmy.nzOP
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        22 hours ago

        Correct. If I had a lot of stuff open (I like to keep stuff open for when I get back to it) then the whole system was slow and would sometimes lock up completely. I needed to close things to keep it stable.

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          7 hours ago

          something is wrong. I have a gaming rig I also use for work, it has 16GB on it and I have never strugled running anything

          I dont know what you mean by a lot but i normally have 10 sites opened (including ms 365 garbage), teams, omnissa client, a few specs usually PDFs, signal, deezer all running on Hyprland and it runs smooth like butter

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          17 hours ago

          Linux isn’t going to help much when the applications are using a lot ram. Firefox is an absolute ram hog linux or windows. Linux is just going to use less of the ram for it self.

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            16 hours ago

            Oh the applications sure were using a lot of RAM, I can’t deny that.