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too real (lemmy.world)
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[–] 55 points 1 month ago* (7 children)

Windows was eating a lot of ram on my laptop even on idle, so if was planning to upgrade my ram from 16 to 32 gb, then I checked the prices and made the tactical decision to install Linux instead

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Seriously my 7 year old i3 w 12gb of RAM laptop running mint feels more smooth than my new work laptop with 64gb of RAM running windows 11 (and a bunch of corporate clutter)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Kinda same. I couldn't get to 11 because of the lack of a TPM. Upgrading is expensive. Linux is not.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It's also quite nice that Linux/etc let you choose what kinds of things you want it to do in low memory situations. I.e. I was getting some OOM process kills mostly because of a modded minecraft server running, and increasing the zswap max pool percentage to 50, changing the zswap compressor to I think zstd, and enlargening my physical swap partition eliminated them.

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