My unpopular opinion: free ram is useless ram. Go on, OS. Put evertyhing into ram. I have 64GB of it. Fill it the fuck up. I want to be able to open things blazingly fast, that's why its there. The trick is leaving enough so new things can fit without waiting for cleanup. And windows isn't bad at scaling its usage. Afaik, wIndows installation on 8GB will use less than the same installation when 16GB is available.

If you had unlimited ram, you'd be mad the OS was wasting time cleaning up behind itself.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not unpopular but only half right. Free RAM already gets used for caching, invisible to you. What you see in the task manager is reserved RAM and that one can't be used by other applications. If all RAM is reserved, you get pagination or the OOMkiller.

[–] tio_bira@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The problem is when one of my two RAM sticks is dedicated to exclusively the microslop spyware and my games can barely run on the leftovers.

I'm playing modded Skyrim with windows, when i used to get crashes the log report almost always have the RAM usage on critical.

When installed some new mods on Linux and they start to crash i was getting "All Good" status on every single log