Adanisi,
@Adanisi@lemmy.zip avatar

Build everything from source ;p

rufus, (edited )

Nothing. My laptop has 8GB and while this is somewhat the limit, it’s enough to browse, do office stuff, a bit of development/programming and even a bit of CAD for my 3D printer, video editing, retro-gaming and all sorts of things. I’d prefer to have 16GB because Firefox likes to eat a lot of RAM, but the laptop is too old for me to upgrade anything at this point.

If you’d like to waste your resources, you could run 4 other operating systems simultaneously in VMs. Or try artificial intelligence chatbots and load one of the large language models. They can easily make use of 32GB of memory and more.

SaltyIceteaMaker, (edited )
@SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

I have 16 gigs of ddr4 sodimms so if you happen to live close enough (unlikely) and need ddr4 i’d be willing to give it to you for free

halm,
@halm@leminal.space avatar

Agreed. I have ageing hardware that I upgraded to its maximum 16GB RAM, and I manage to browse the web and do basic office work with that. The most memory intensive work I do beside browsing is in GIMP, and I simply set some sensible virtual memory for that to work.

Just use a light DE, or even scale back to only a WM. People insisting that KDE or Gnome are lightweight are exactly the same who claim that 32GB RAM is a minimum. Yeah, it is when even your desktop environment is bloated 🙄

If you’re a gamer and can afford the hardware upgrades to stay at the current bleeding edge, go ahead. I keep an old box alive and make it work instead.

sebsch,

Mount your .cache dirs into memory via tmpfs

GustavoM, (edited )
@GustavoM@lemmy.world avatar

Does it improve performance in any way? Seems a bit obvious, but I’ll ask anyways for the sake of curiosity.

Acters,

Yes, and if you have an ssd, it will decrease the amount of usage that the limited(albeit ridiculously high) read/write cycles the ssd is capable of. However, it is unlikely you will hit those limits with that kind of usage, lol

Also, memory is faster always, but your usage is negligible. You can disable swap(linux/mac) or page file(windows) to force memory to be used, and your drive is used less. Firefox can be configured to disable disk cache and increase ram cache. Also, it will be noted that this cache is marked as temporary ram cache. any application that needs more ram can delete the temp cache for usage(dynamic ram usage)

But that’s it. The best thing to do is live your life and be happy that you are future proofed for any task that may arise.

ultra,

yes.

ultra,

Self host some stuff.

bitwolf,

With the rate at which Electron applications catch on? Nothing, you’ll end up using it all in a few years time.

dessalines,

Was just gonna say this. Run discord and slack, and you’re all set.

NotAnArdvark,

Here’s a little script I’ve put in my $PATH, called memsum:


<span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">#!/usr/bin/bash
</span><span style="color:#323232;">/usr/bin/ps -eo rss,command --sort -rss </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">egrep $1 </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">awk </span><span style="color:#183691;">'{ hr=$1/1024 ; sum +=hr} END {print sum}'
</span>

Now you can go: memsum firefox or memsum whatever and see that, actually, apps use a ridiculous amount of memory these days.

I can get Firefox up to 8GB by using things like Office 365.

Signfeld,

Thanks for this, it’s so easy to just run this script when I’m curious.

I got the warning “egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E” so I just swapped that command to get rid of the message.

olafurp,

Browsers often use a lot of unreserved memory marked as free for whoever wants it. This is how you get 16GB browser sessions.

ShortN0te,

www.linuxatemyram.com

possiblylinux127,

Virtual Machines?

chitak166,

Nothing. Don’t make up problems for your hardware, lol.

I’m guessing you listened to someone who didn’t know what they were talking about.

CaptainProton, (edited )

Just open a few more Chrome tabs: a couple of Ali Express and Amazon pages and a few YouTube videos and couple Reddit posts, and you’ll be wondering why you only got 32.

donescobar,

2 Chrome tabs at the same time!

MTK,

Not really RAM but you can support science!

makeuseof.com/…/10-ways-to-donate-your-cpu-time-t…

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