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.

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deepthaw 9 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 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can post images in Slack and use text formatting. Those are things that use memory.

	▲	abujazar 3 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 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Gifs. I'm only half joking.

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akdev1l 8 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 10 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 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Is Slack that much worse of a memory hog than Discord? Aren’t they both built on electron?

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Kirby64 9 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.

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alwillis 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can make a pretty good electron app or one that kinda sucks. Slack is in the latter category.

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vunderba 6 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 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Say what you will about Microsoft but the performance of VS Code is really good.

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Schiendelman 10 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?

	▲	MrDrMcCoy 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I was replying to someone that made that claim from apparent experience.

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briandear 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not having to use outlook is a feature not a bug.

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Izikiel43 9 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.