Dude's filthy rich. Wish I had gone with the upgrade I planned to do last fall.
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Back in 2021 I accidentally bought a 64 GB kit rather than the 32 GB one I intended to. No regrets now but really felt like an excess back then.
64 still feels like excess on a Linux machine... But I got mine back in like 2023-2024 so I got lucky
It really depends on what you do.
Once you start opening programs your OS is basically negligible.
Sure windows might use 5 gigs of ram on startup. But when you’ve got 100 tabs open using 20 gigs of ram the 3 vs 5 gigs is a drop in the bucket.
If you do virtualization it stacks
Came here to say this. I almost never run just 1 computer on my computer.
Base Linux OS + Test/burner VM + Work VM --> want 64 GB
or
Base Linux OS + Whonix Gateway + Whonix Workstation --> want 64 GB
Well, when you're coming from 8gb, that 5 gigs is a big deal. I went overkill with 64, but I'm not going to complain about it.
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Ah the times when you could accidentally buy twice as much RAM.
holy crap tell me about it.
The server this Lemmy instance is on was bought in August 2024 with 512G ram. I bought another 8x 64G in April 2025 for £610. That is ~£75 a stick of 64G server ram.
I just bought another server to go along side this and was originally planning to buy the same RAM again. It is now £500 per stick. So I've had to instead donate the extra RAM I bought last year to the new ram-less server.
So that's £75 -> £500. Absolutely ridiculous. Would have cost me £8000 in RAM when the rest of the server was ~£2k.
God damn
Indeed. Dude my main pc is just a modest last gen r7 32G with decent gpu. And I'm glad I pulled the trigger for the 16g upgrade last year.
Now I don't personally believe in higher being, but I'll be lying if I'm not nervous everytime I power up the thing. If anything breaks even if I go a tier cheaper I couldn't afford the replacement.
I bought 48 GB DDR5 for my laptop back in September, just before the prices ignited their rocket engines. I paid 120€ I think. Prices now are like 500(ish). Truly insane.
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Wish I had gone with the upgrade I planned to do last fall.
I was considering splashing out a bit for some ram upgrades to my laptop from 2018. It's got 8 gig now, but can support 32. Or maybe just one 16gb stick to start slow, it's got overheating issues.
I was watching videos from a IT tech about how he gets performance/cooling upgrades from just replacing thermal paste/putty on chips. Oh, I didn't know about putty on non CPU chips, I guess I'll get some of the right thickess from a store near me. Oh no, looks like that's out of stock. Well, I want to replace everything at once.
Oh here's another place that sells putty, let me get that while I have some time off. Do they have ram too? Oh no, they don't that's ok. I can wait, and get it for myself as a treat for achieving some behavioural goals I have for myself.
After all, why not? It's late October 2025 , I have plenty of time to buy ram whenever I want to.
Late October 2025
Plenty of time to buy ram
October 2025
RAM
Fuckig fUCK FUCKFNGUFKC
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all that ram is for my many virtual machines i planned to run and never did because i didn't actually get any practical use out of them
Containerize everything
Unfortunately I can't run windows 7 in a docker container for the lickable aero theme and nostalgia. The KDE aero themes just don't feel the same either. Lots of subtle things missing.
Actually...
holy shit
wait a minute this docker container is just running qemu and a web-based vnc client >:/
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There's still time.
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elon musk inherited an emerald minefrom his father, but your child will inherit 32 full gigabytes of ram
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Meanwhile, the latest macOS update took away 20% of my battery life and added 15% of ram usage, just because, while the battery life of my Linux laptop is actually getting better with updates.
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Now launch one (1) web browser and watch an elephant drop on your sofa.
The OS is no longer relevant to memory usage, really, not in the way it used to be. The amount of memory required for a usable desktop is peanuts compared to the amount required to run a few web-apps.
One of the many reasons why we need a new and better browser without all the bloat.
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I see you don't run electron app in flatpaks :)
Why are you crying, Windows user?
Same reason as everyone else who waited to upgrade.
Me with ZFS root:
D:
And here I am with a budget 12 GB RAM phone, that will turn out to be flagship tier due to the RAM crisis. Holy fuck.
We were so spoiled, we didn't even know what we had.
The way it should be. If it were Windows you'd have a massive bloated fat cat that can't breathe taking up almost the entire sofa.
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You can still use Chrome in Linux (my wife uses them together on her laptop).
Haven't had memory issues on my Windows 11 laptop so I don't check how much is free. On the other hand, free disk space is jumping between 0 and 10 GB without notification as to what appears or disappears. This is annoyingly unreliable because the space often gets closer to 0 right at the time when I need to Syncthing files with others.
Possibly windows update/defender downloading>installing>deleting files. Might also be the page file, though that doesn't usually shrink that often
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IntelliJ has entered the chat.
My unpopular opinion: free ram is useless ram. Go on, OS. Put evertyhing into ram. I have 64GB of it. Fill it the fuck up. I want to be able to open things blazingly fast, that's why its there. The trick is leaving enough so new things can fit without waiting for cleanup. And windows isn't bad at scaling its usage. Afaik, wIndows installation on 8GB will use less than the same installation when 16GB is available.
If you had unlimited ram, you'd be mad the OS was wasting time cleaning up behind itself.
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.
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I have 32 gigs and Windows 10 doesn't actually use too much RAM. Around 4 GB, but still quite a lot. Still nothing to how much free RAM I have though.
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