• Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    for desktop use as mentioned above you can easily get by with less.

    Sure, as long as you’re willing to deal with the performance hit of constantly swapping to disk.

    Even SSD drives are a magnitude slower that any modern RAM stick, so you’re adding TONS of processing time by running that little memory. And gods help you if your swap is on spinning rust…

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      16 hours ago

      If that was the case I wouldn’t have 4GB of idle ram just sitting in my PC. There is no unloading to swap when 50% of available ram is unused.

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          4 hours ago

          you did notice the person youeare replaying to is using linux, right?

          they are correct, 16gb goes a loooooong way in linux. I know begause I too have 16 on m* work and gaming rig and ram has never been a bottleneck

          your comments sound like typical windows experience