[nsbk]

Safari routinely using 20+ Gb of memory with a handful of tabs open. Safari tabs refusing to close. Unresponsive System Settings window. Random application freezes and crashes, Apple Music not playing music. This is on a 32Gb M1 Max. My M1 Air on Sequoia doesn't experience any of these issues, even if it has half the unified memory.

[nuker]

Just do a fresh OS install erasing full disk first. Then be careful what apps you add. Done.

[clint]

Never seen any of this even once.

[satvikpendem]

I never had any of those issues, but then again I don't use Safari or other Apple apps like music.

[nsbk]

The fact that avoiding Apple-made software provides an overall better user experience is very telling

[satvikpendem]

Not necessarily, because I never used Apple apps, it's not like I'm avoiding them now because they're ostensibly buggy (as others don't seem to have the same issues in this thread).