The way it should be. If it were Windows you'd have a massive bloated fat cat that can't breathe taking up almost the entire sofa.
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It would make Garfield look like an Olympic cathlete in compurrison.
Me with ZFS root:
D:
I cried today b/c although I knew my mistake, I accidentally sat upon my balls just as I was sitting down to sort through my missteps & reinstall w/ a refreshed and more educated approach. Karma was doing its thing with me today. I hope that I am paying it forward because I can’t honestly think of any hurt I may have caused to warrant such a thing upon me. Now, I don’t know why I’m crying. Probably seen enough trailers for that new E.T. Movie w/ Jared Goff.
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I have 32 gigs and Windows 10 doesn't actually use too much RAM. Around 4 GB, but still quite a lot. Still nothing to how much free RAM I have though.
if the cat was a windows 11 system he'd be so big he consumed the entire couch
Haven't had memory issues on my Windows 11 laptop so I don't check how much is free. On the other hand, free disk space is jumping between 0 and 10 GB without notification as to what appears or disappears. This is annoyingly unreliable because the space often gets closer to 0 right at the time when I need to Syncthing files with others.
My wife's laptop has always had those lovely features with Win10. She'll be doing normal Word stuff, some browser tabs open, and suddenly Windows decides to do something in the background, fans kick on high, even her mouse becomes sluggish. I had hoped that moving her to an SSD and 64GB(!) of memory would remove any of that, but nope, just Windows being Windows. Meanwhile, I have btop open all the time on my Linux machine, and my memory and CPU are always where I'd expect them to be (except for Snap stuff, I need to do a bit of extraction there for the rest of my normal apps).
Sounds like Windows Search Indexer. I just changed the settings in my Win 11 VM to only index the Start menu, but I'm also an old school folder user, so I never use the Windows menu to find files anyway.
Before the change, my VM was arbitrarily locking up, unable to do just about anything. It's been a lot smoother since the change.
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Possibly windows update/defender downloading>installing>deleting files. Might also be the page file, though that doesn't usually shrink that often
I'm going to stack as many Arch VMs as I can inside each other, on top of my btw existing Arch.
Matryoshka Arch
(I'll just wait a few days until the new Arch iso drops and becomes stable enough)
(Edit: not babushka)
Between Firefox being its usual self and the 11.5gb of VRAM and GTT kwin_wayland is currently using, 32gb does not feel excessive.
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I have 32gb of ram on my desktop and genuenly im not sure if ive ever used more than 24gb of ram
I do. Games like KSP, Rimworld, that like modding, can get heavy quickly. Can we please move to a patcher approach, instead of keeping all the modified assets (and the originals) in the RAM all the time?
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Sitting on a cool 64, over here.