Title. Besides setting tmpfs to use 10GiB of it to store downloads.

  • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    21
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Nothing. My laptop has 8GB and while this is somewhat the limit, it’s enough to browse, do office stuff, a bit of development/programming and even a bit of CAD for my 3D printer, video editing, retro-gaming and all sorts of things. I’d prefer to have 16GB because Firefox likes to eat a lot of RAM, but the laptop is too old for me to upgrade anything at this point.

    If you’d like to waste your resources, you could run 4 other operating systems simultaneously in VMs. Or try artificial intelligence chatbots and load one of the large language models. They can easily make use of 32GB of memory and more.

    • Handles@leminal.space
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. I have ageing hardware that I upgraded to its maximum 16GB RAM, and I manage to browse the web and do basic office work with that. The most memory intensive work I do beside browsing is in GIMP, and I simply set some sensible virtual memory for that to work.

      Just use a light DE, or even scale back to only a WM. People insisting that KDE or Gnome are lightweight are exactly the same who claim that 32GB RAM is a minimum. Yeah, it is when even your desktop environment is bloated 🙄

      If you’re a gamer and can afford the hardware upgrades to stay at the current bleeding edge, go ahead. I keep an old box alive and make it work instead.

    • lemonuri
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      There is a plugin for Firefox called auto unload tabs, which is very good for preserving ram.

      There is also an apt pakage to run firefox in ram and copy to ssd every hour, it’s meant to improve speed and also minimize writes to ssd. With leftover ram, why not?