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by tentacleuno 1416 days ago
> Whatever I do that I know is temporary, will go to /tmp and I know it will be deleted after I reboot.

Only problem with that is that if I remember correctly, on some distributions, the /tmp folder is actually held in-memory. This means that, the more stuff is in there, the more RAM is going to be used up.

There's also /run/user/1000 which is more of a systemd thing, and that's definitely mapped to memory (at least it is on Fedora).