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[–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You absolutely can. I have Linux with Hyprland and it is less than 2gb doing nothing. You can probably run ARM boards and do the same. I think with browser it is still less than 4Gb. Your system just needs to be free of corporate garbage.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    I guess if you're running 32-bit, but in 64-bit land the word size is double so it'll barebones run on double the 32-bit system (at minimum). Once you open a modern browser, it opens like 6 tabs (with a blank tab); there are background tabs. Pictures and active media consume a large amount of bandwidth and memory, which is a con against the modern web. I guess we should go back to BBSs.

    I also don't run "corporate garbage." I use FOSS exclusively. But Windows, and its svchost'd jobs, eats over 2GiB ram idling.

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  • Right, but the browser hasn't opened any web pages yet and you have not started your IDE (for example, Rust Analyzer takes a massive amount of RAM) and so on.

    I think 8GB is probably a little bit more realistic, workable with, but likely still a lot of pain...

    I generally support the sentiment. Though here I am with 64GB and it's still often swapping. (I'm already running optimized Linux)

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