RAM (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

I used it until very recently. It's not that bad, unless you're one of those people who keeps dozens of opened tabs forever. My experience was pretty smooth, to be honest. I did some academic works on such a machine and often had several tabs opened at once, each with a different paper opened, along with google drive and stuff opened at the same time, and got no issues.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    4G ram without swap doesn't last long.

    If you are happy to use swap consistently and suffer the performance drop, that's fine.

    Before I went Linux I started out with a 4G VM with no swap, and kept wondering why it was so unreliable. I almost gave up on Linux as stuff kept crashing. Then I saw the oom-killer logs.

    8G was fine.

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