My OS uses about 700MB when I log in from a reboot, then I immediately load ~15GB of terribly optimized browser tabs, mostly for work (teams, google voice, discord, outlook, etc)
It is a web wrapper, you can even enable (but only if you want) vencord or equicord so i am sure it is a web wrapper, also, i just remembered that the first time i used it, it had like 90/100 mb of ram usage then i changed i did something in the settings and it went down to a steady 22mb, if i remember correctly i installed “OpenAsar DOM optimizer” shelter plugin (which you can use alongside vencord/equicord)
Edit: just checked, it uses Tauri, so on linux you may have some problems like some lag
I use discord quite heavily; the TOS violation and risk of ban has me a little risk averse when it comes to discord
It’s actually hard to get banned for these things, mainly because discord don’t give a fuck and many are hard to detect, the thing that may ban you are API abuses but just stay away from those plugins and don’t touch experiments;
I never got banned in 2 years of using mods and clients, and i did some crazy stuff
There must be more tabs. As soon as a critical mass of tabs are all in existence at the same time, the tab god will be born. This nascent entity will reshape the world, will purify existence
6/8GB lmao. I have some tabs, spotify, discord, protonmail etc. open, casual stuff. This one is my old one running zorin, I can get it to about 1GB on idle which is fine since I have eye candy settings. I had mint on this earlier, but for some reason it drank memory like a sponge and I could barely have couple tabs open, so I dunno whatever zorin is doing but it’s working way lighter
I have 8gb in my Debian home server, which is perfectly fine. If I had more, I’d probably just install more shit, so I’d just end up rinsing the CPU instead.
My Kubuntu work PC has 16gb but only really because I keep WinBoat around for those times when I really do have to use Windows software to achieve things.
I get not wanting bloated programs but only using a small portiom of your RAM isn’t a goal to aim for.
If you’re on Linux, The kernel is likely using all available RAM. It uses that space to store the page cache because reading from RAM is faster than reading from disk.
You could have all of that RAM go unused if you wanted, but your system would suffer.
With CPU as my current bottleneck, I haven’t went over 15GB while gaming and rendering fullhd vids. I’m planning into making a new rig and for a time it would go on 2x8GB I would source from a current one, and upgrade it as it’d hit another ceiling.
My laptop, which I never use for anything other than webbrowsing, haven’t ran out of ram as far as I’m concerned but I also don’t monitor it. My “gaming” rig will swallow whatever ram I give it while playing BeamNG.drive
The only reason I purchased 32gb over 16gb a few years ago was, because I wanted to have an upgrade over my old system. I was never filling up the 16gb and didn’t see a real need to have 32gb. But it was cheap. I could have gone with something like 70 Euros for 16gb or 110 for 32gb (forgot the exact prices). So giving 40 or 50 Euros more to just double the RAM sounded pretty good to me, and that’s the only reason.
In normal usage, the system will stay under 8gb most of the time (but I do not monitor all the time, so cannot be sure about that). It’s mostly games or the browser that needs so much RAM. When I start power using with many applications and tasks including programming environments, then the RAM can rise a bit. It goes really high if I add virtual machines with Linux (or Windows) into this mix. So 16gb would be nice to have in those situations. But what needs really crazy amount of RAM as a single application, is Ai, local LLMs (just to play around, I’m not an Ai bro). Even 32gb can be filled up easily this way.
System monitor says I’m running 12GB, but there’s a lot of unnecessary stuff open, and last time I restarted this machine is 4 days ago. Plus at this rate my computer is basically a server, and since I already have 32 GB I don’t care too much about memory management any more.
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Alright Linux guys… how much RAM do you use on a normal day? Not looking at you power guys who are running every damn thing to max out your 128GB…
I have 32GB but rarely hit over 8GB, probably less, unless I’m running some serious apps like graphics.
I got that 32GB because of Win10 to give me more comfort room. Now I don’t need it as much running Linux.
16GB of RAM, 16GB of swap, and we often fill up both. So many browser tabs. Soooo many browser tabs.
I’m using 7/96G right now.
I have possibly over-spec’d.
Sell 64GB and retire early!
I usually stay under 8. I have 16 but the rest is just cinsumed by browser tabs
My OS uses about 700MB when I log in from a reboot, then I immediately load ~15GB of terribly optimized browser tabs, mostly for work (teams, google voice, discord, outlook, etc)
For discord i suggest to install Dorion, it is a discord client, it uses like ~22mb of ram on my computer
I use discord quite heavily; the TOS violation and risk of ban has me a little risk averse when it comes to discord.
At 22mb it must reverse-engineer the protocol rather than just being a web wrapper.
It is a web wrapper, you can even enable (but only if you want) vencord or equicord so i am sure it is a web wrapper, also, i just remembered that the first time i used it, it had like 90/100 mb of ram usage then i changed i did something in the settings and it went down to a steady 22mb, if i remember correctly i installed “OpenAsar DOM optimizer” shelter plugin (which you can use alongside vencord/equicord)
Edit: just checked, it uses Tauri, so on linux you may have some problems like some lag
It’s actually hard to get banned for these things, mainly because discord don’t give a fuck and many are hard to detect, the thing that may ban you are API abuses but just stay away from those plugins and don’t touch experiments; I never got banned in 2 years of using mods and clients, and i did some crazy stuff
NAS has 1800MB, runs Debian, uses 200MB.
Netbook has 1800MB, runs Void, uses 90% when browsing.
Desktop has 32GB, runs Debian, uses 2-3GB while browsing, 8-10GB while gaming, 32GB while doing image/videoework.
There must be more tabs. As soon as a critical mass of tabs are all in existence at the same time, the tab god will be born. This nascent entity will reshape the world, will purify existence
6/8GB lmao. I have some tabs, spotify, discord, protonmail etc. open, casual stuff. This one is my old one running zorin, I can get it to about 1GB on idle which is fine since I have eye candy settings. I had mint on this earlier, but for some reason it drank memory like a sponge and I could barely have couple tabs open, so I dunno whatever zorin is doing but it’s working way lighter
17/64GB. Tabs go brrrrr. It would also help if I closed some of the apps I have used after I am done.
I have 8gb in my Debian home server, which is perfectly fine. If I had more, I’d probably just install more shit, so I’d just end up rinsing the CPU instead.
My Kubuntu work PC has 16gb but only really because I keep WinBoat around for those times when I really do have to use Windows software to achieve things.
16g of ram in my Linux gaming rig that play Heros of the Storm and Deadlock on. No issues hardware side, I’m looking at you deadlock.
Vivaldi, which is Chromium based, is a hungry hungry hippo, but also running qBittorrent (2,7 GB), so I’m around 10 GB / 64 GB atm.
I’m on KDE btw.
I get not wanting bloated programs but only using a small portiom of your RAM isn’t a goal to aim for.
If you’re on Linux, The kernel is likely using all available RAM. It uses that space to store the page cache because reading from RAM is faster than reading from disk.
You could have all of that RAM go unused if you wanted, but your system would suffer.
On my Linux system it caches about 4 gig of stuff, the rest of RAM not used by apps is totally unused. No issues at all
With CPU as my current bottleneck, I haven’t went over 15GB while gaming and rendering fullhd vids. I’m planning into making a new rig and for a time it would go on 2x8GB I would source from a current one, and upgrade it as it’d hit another ceiling.
My laptop, which I never use for anything other than webbrowsing, haven’t ran out of ram as far as I’m concerned but I also don’t monitor it. My “gaming” rig will swallow whatever ram I give it while playing BeamNG.drive
The only reason I purchased 32gb over 16gb a few years ago was, because I wanted to have an upgrade over my old system. I was never filling up the 16gb and didn’t see a real need to have 32gb. But it was cheap. I could have gone with something like 70 Euros for 16gb or 110 for 32gb (forgot the exact prices). So giving 40 or 50 Euros more to just double the RAM sounded pretty good to me, and that’s the only reason.
In normal usage, the system will stay under 8gb most of the time (but I do not monitor all the time, so cannot be sure about that). It’s mostly games or the browser that needs so much RAM. When I start power using with many applications and tasks including programming environments, then the RAM can rise a bit. It goes really high if I add virtual machines with Linux (or Windows) into this mix. So 16gb would be nice to have in those situations. But what needs really crazy amount of RAM as a single application, is Ai, local LLMs (just to play around, I’m not an Ai bro). Even 32gb can be filled up easily this way.
System monitor says I’m running 12GB, but there’s a lot of unnecessary stuff open, and last time I restarted this machine is 4 days ago. Plus at this rate my computer is basically a server, and since I already have 32 GB I don’t care too much about memory management any more.
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