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My Ubuntu install would beg to differ. It's a dog at 4gig
Well that's because you're using a bloated distro. That's the cost of all those features.
My laptop, at 1.5 gigs of RAM, is blazing fast and has a smooth UX with a Debian+i3wm install.
As in 1.5GiB available or used when idling?
Blazing fast as long as you are only text editing and dont open a web browser.
Works fine with Firefox, but yes. That's 90% of what I do at a PC.
The meme said Linux, it didn't specify a distro.
Nixe goalpost move though.
Okay, Jimmy Neutron. The meme said Linux, it did not specify that it was a Linux-based OS. The kernel uses a roughly similar amount of memory, it's all the other crap in userspace that makes the difference.
If you want to be a pedant, get it right next time.
What goalpost you potato? What was said basically amounts to "your experience differs because of (completely optional customizations)"
Linux is not an OS.
Well yes.... And?
Braindead responses and honestly probably just bait anyone passing through, ignore this fool. Ubuntu base install(gnome), in my experience uses less than 2gb of ram at idle. (Even less when using xfce or lxqt) Dummy added bloat to his system and then came on here to bitch about nothing. either that or hes a bot, troll or both.
Itโs still just an OS. The olโ dentries/pagecache/inodes caching can bloat your RAM usage out, especially in combination with the default for swappiness and vfs_pressure, not to mention the kernel slab. sk_buff is quite untunable depending on the particular kernel. That on top of any badly behaved applications that request transparent huge pages but donโt properly defragment their space you can end up with fairly huge bloat, especially if the app you are using forks and changes memory often. Itโs hard to just โLinux uses no memory and thatโs that!โ When it gives you a mile of rope to hang yourself with.