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

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[-] nykula@piefed.social 7 points 4 weeks ago

Haven't had memory issues on my Windows 11 laptop so I don't check how much is free. On the other hand, free disk space is jumping between 0 and 10 GB without notification as to what appears or disappears. This is annoyingly unreliable because the space often gets closer to 0 right at the time when I need to Syncthing files with others.

[-] RustySharp@programming.dev 7 points 4 weeks ago

Possibly windows update/defender downloading>installing>deleting files. Might also be the page file, though that doesn't usually shrink that often

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 4 weeks ago

My wife's laptop has always had those lovely features with Win10. She'll be doing normal Word stuff, some browser tabs open, and suddenly Windows decides to do something in the background, fans kick on high, even her mouse becomes sluggish. I had hoped that moving her to an SSD and 64GB(!) of memory would remove any of that, but nope, just Windows being Windows. Meanwhile, I have btop open all the time on my Linux machine, and my memory and CPU are always where I'd expect them to be (except for Snap stuff, I need to do a bit of extraction there for the rest of my normal apps).

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[-] blinfabian@feddit.nl 6 points 4 weeks ago

if the cat was a windows 11 system he'd be so big he consumed the entire couch

[-] defrostedLasagna4921@piefed.zip 6 points 4 weeks ago

I have 32 gigs and Windows 10 doesn't actually use too much RAM. Around 4 GB, but still quite a lot. Still nothing to how much free RAM I have though.

[-] Zak@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Between Firefox being its usual self and the 11.5gb of VRAM and GTT kwin_wayland is currently using, 32gb does not feel excessive.

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[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I'm going to stack as many Arch VMs as I can inside each other, on top of my btw existing Arch.

Matryoshka Arch

(I'll just wait a few days until the new Arch iso drops and becomes stable enough)

(Edit: not babushka)

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Matryoshka*

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[-] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago

I cried today b/c although I knew my mistake, I accidentally sat upon my balls just as I was sitting down to sort through my missteps & reinstall w/ a refreshed and more educated approach. Karma was doing its thing with me today. I hope that I am paying it forward because I can’t honestly think of any hurt I may have caused to warrant such a thing upon me. Now, I don’t know why I’m crying. Probably seen enough trailers for that new E.T. Movie w/ Jared Goff.

[-] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Watch them disappear once you start a blender render

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 weeks ago

I have 32gb of ram on my desktop and genuenly im not sure if ive ever used more than 24gb of ram

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

i have 64, not sure if i've used more than 12

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

To be fair the one time I did manage to push 24gb it was a stress test, outside normal workflow tho I generally dont use more than 8gb of ram

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[-] tomenzgg@midwest.social 3 points 4 weeks ago

Sitting on a cool 64, over here.

[-] Logical@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Relatable

[-] goodboyjojo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

i like linux because it's pretty lightweight and good for older hardware

[-] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

All I have is 8 gigs right now, 1 channel dead. My windows hovers are 5 gig ram to just run. Hurts.

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[-] TractorDuffy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

We're not lol, why do you think the users of other OSs envy you? It's not hard to switch.

[-] Auth@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

My linux system uses that 32 gigs. If it sees 32gb available it will use 30 for caching but its not the same as windows where its using 10gb because the apps actually need it to run