While this is cool, it all goes out the window the minute you run any app

janmalec 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Exactly. The issue today is that even if you optimize your OS and DE to be very memory efficient, it matters very little as soon as you open a modern web browser. And without a modern web browser a big part of the online experience is broken.

	▲	creshal 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Eh, kinda. Work forces me to have Jira, Confluence, Gitlab, Copilot, the other Copilot formerly known as Outlook, the other other Copilot formerly known as Teams, as well as Slack of course, and a dozen other webslop apps open… and it still all fits in <8GB RAM. Which is a lot worse than the <1GB you'd get with well-optimized native tools, but try running Win11 with "only" 8GB RAM.
	▲	bandrami 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Beautifully, blissfully broken

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desdenova an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Running apps is what RAM should be used for, not wasted on the base system.