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Why are you crying, Windows user? (programming.dev)

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's not unpopular but only half right. Free RAM already gets used for caching, invisible to you. What you see in the task manager is reserved RAM and that one can't be used by other applications. If all RAM is reserved, you get pagination or the OOMkiller.