When I was chatting to someone about building my ‘mid’ gaming pc, we got chatting about RAM and I said I’ve got 16GB set up. His reaction was ‘only 16 gig?’
Well yeah, my OS is only using 16% of it at startup compared to you know what. (the repeated number 16 is a coincidence, it IS using 16%)
I built my mom a cheap PC like 7 years ago right before work from home took off, and at the time it was running Windows 10, but as time went on, it became apparent that the 8GB i built it with somehow wasnt enough so I upgraded it to 16GB. Fast-forward to now, where she’s now running Linux because her work didn’t want to support Windows 10 WFH anymore (but somehow also supported Linux clients??), and she doesn’t even use 8GB of RAM, even with integrated graphics.
When I was chatting to someone about building my ‘mid’ gaming pc, we got chatting about RAM and I said I’ve got 16GB set up. His reaction was ‘only 16 gig?’
Well yeah, my OS is only using 16% of it at startup compared to you know what. (the repeated number 16 is a coincidence, it IS using 16%)
I built my mom a cheap PC like 7 years ago right before work from home took off, and at the time it was running Windows 10, but as time went on, it became apparent that the 8GB i built it with somehow wasnt enough so I upgraded it to 16GB. Fast-forward to now, where she’s now running Linux because her work didn’t want to support Windows 10 WFH anymore (but somehow also supported Linux clients??), and she doesn’t even use 8GB of RAM, even with integrated graphics.
Linux is probably actually using 100%, as memory not allocated to programs is used for caching
Thats a much better use of memory than “oh I’m out and it’s time to write to the paging file, just go wait”