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| ▲ | deepthaw 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I’m freaking out the equivalent of mutt and irc require more than 8GB of RAM to run simultaneously. What are modern operating systems and applications doing? |
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| ▲ | astrange 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | You can post images in Slack and use text formatting. Those are things that use memory. | | |
| ▲ | abujazar 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sloppy memory management is what uses memory. But those apps are in a class of their own, along with Electron apps. |
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| ▲ | jshen 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Gifs. I'm only half joking. |
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| ▲ | akdev1l 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I used outlook on the browser when needed and slack was open most of the time I also had around 200 tabs open on the regular Now I wouldn’t tell you it was a good experience because it wasn’t. But it was usable even pushing the hardware to the max. |
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| ▲ | Kirby64 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Children don't have Slack and Outlook open. Gmail in a web browser and Discord, maybe. My old M1 Air works just fine for productivity workloads, and has for years. |
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| ▲ | vunderba 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Is Slack that much worse of a memory hog than Discord? Aren’t they both built on electron? | | |
| ▲ | Kirby64 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Not sure about slack vs discord, but browser Gmail is almost certainly less memory hungry than Outlook. And that’s probably enough of a difference by itself. | |
| ▲ | alwillis 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You can make a pretty good electron app or one that kinda sucks. Slack is in the latter category. | | |
| ▲ | vunderba 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | VS Code (or rather VSCodium in my case) is also electron based but it's been relatively snappy in my experience - though I don't use a lot of third party plugins. | | |
| ▲ | alwillis 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Say what you will about Microsoft but the performance of VS Code is really good. |
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| ▲ | Schiendelman 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Do you actually have a problem with Slack and Outlook open at the same time on an Apple Silicon Mac with 8GB of memory? Or are you assuming? |
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| ▲ | MrDrMcCoy 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | I was replying to someone that made that claim from apparent experience. |
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| ▲ | briandear 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Not having to use outlook is a feature not a bug. |
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| ▲ | Izikiel43 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Not being able to keep Slack and Outlook open at the same time seems like a pretty significant productivity hindrance to me. 8GB RAM is truly pathetic in 2022. I read this as how bad software quality has gone down, that a mail program and a chat program don't fit in 8GB of RAM. |
