• Vopyr@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Why do you need so much RAM, for browsing, gaming, or is it your operating system that uses so much?

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      2 days ago

      Browsing and gaming. Discord and Spotify are always open and I’ve noticed almost every update they use another 30-40MB. Not much but discord literally went from using 150ish MB to 400-500MB on first start up. After a couple hours of being open it’ll use up to 2GB of RAM. Software is getting worse and worse with memory management and games are getting ridiculous too

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        1 day ago

        Why not close what you’re not using right now? If you have a bunch of things open, then of course you’ll be using RAM a lot.