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If these applications only hogged memory when under stress (outgoing screencap plus video, multiple streams incoming, display to 3+ monitors) you might have a point. But that's not the case so you don't.

Meanwhile I can play back multiple 1080 videos on different monitors, run a high speed curl download, saturate my gigabit LAN with a bulk transfer, and run a brrfs scrub in the background all most likely without breaking 2 GB of RAM usage. MPV, VLC, and ffmpeg are all remarkably lightweight.

The only daily application I run that consumes a noticable quantity of resources is my web browser.

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If you didn’t babysit your task manager would you know which program used more RAM or not?

This argument is just so endless and tiring.

Saturating my bandwidth or running a btrfs scrub isn’t accomplishing the business logic I need to do my job, that’s what my web browser is doing.

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So is it the "business logic" or is it the multiple HD streams that are supposed to account for the resource consumption? You've changed your story. But do please explain how the "business logic" to handle the chat box, UI, and whatever else is supposed to justify the status quo.

People making excuses for poorly designed software is what's tiring.