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by whatevaa 75 days ago
Win11 barely works with 4GB. Like, you can have a browser with youtube on and that's it, 90%+ memory usage. I know because that is one of my media PC (instead of smart tv).

Can't move to Linux because it's Intel Atom and Intel P-state driver for that is borked, never fixed.
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oreally 75 days ago
Today's browsers tend to be huge memory hogs too. Software's attitude of "there's always more memory" is coming back to bite them as prices of ram increase.
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senfiaj 75 days ago
IMHO, browsers might prioritize execution speed somewhat more than memory. There is the Pareto tradeoff principle where it's unlikely to optimize all the parameters - if you optimize one, you are likely to sacrifice others. Also more memory consumption (unlike CPU) doesn't decrease power efficiency that much, so, more memory might even help with that by reducing CPU usage with caching.
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oreally 75 days ago
TBH your comments come off as either very misleading or just uneducated on the nature of performance. Troubling indeed.
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senfiaj 75 days ago
Can you enlighten me why it's misleading or uneducated?
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