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Why are you crying, Windows user? (thelemmy.club)

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[–] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 81 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Back in 2021 I accidentally bought a 64 GB kit rather than the 32 GB one I intended to. No regrets now but really felt like an excess back then.

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[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

Ah the times when you could accidentally buy twice as much RAM.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 5 months ago* (7 children)

64 still feels like excess on a Linux machine... But I got mine back in like 2023-2024 so I got lucky

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[–] markz@suppo.fi 52 points 5 months ago

It really depends on what you do.

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Once you start opening programs your OS is basically negligible.

Sure windows might use 5 gigs of ram on startup. But when you’ve got 100 tabs open using 20 gigs of ram the 3 vs 5 gigs is a drop in the bucket.

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[–] zaubentrucker@sopuli.xyz 16 points 5 months ago (1 child)

If you do virtualization it stacks

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 8 points 5 months ago

Came here to say this. I almost never run just 1 computer on my computer.

Base Linux OS + Test/burner VM + Work VM --> want 64 GB

or

Base Linux OS + Whonix Gateway + Whonix Workstation --> want 64 GB

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago*

Well, when you're coming from 8gb, that 5 gigs is a big deal. I went overkill with 64, but I'm not going to complain about it.

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[–] The_v@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

This is why I have learned to immediately max out the RAM on the motherboard for my wife when I replace her machine.

Some of these webpages are absolutely stupid in how much they load. She likes to have 40 or 50 tabs open all the time.

Her current desktop has 64gb

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago*

yeah, i have 32gb and it still feels excessive. even with plex, firefox, steam and discord going i'm only at 8 gigs of usage. all i do on my desktop is game though, i have a server for virtualization and stuff.

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