> Unused RAM is wasted RAM

A terrible phrase constantly used in defense of bloated, wasteful programs using gobs of memory to achieve nothing.

I was quite surprised that the this phrase, which papers over nuances in how operating systems classify and manage memory, was posted by someone who studied CS.

It’s true unused it wasted but unfortunately what it’s used for is decided by corporate flavor of the month so garbage one drive, teams and Gemini builds eat all the ram that would be better used by other applications people actually like

Indeed. They can’t know what other applications you need to run. So they more frugal the OS and application, the more available for other software apps.