I have macbook air with M1 chip, I wish I could change to linux but unfortunately I cant so I try to stick as much as possible to using open source on macos. But i cant understand why FOSS apps take up so much space in memory. I'm even getting messages that says that I dont have space left in memory and i must close apps, and I thought that chip M1 was enough with 8gb of ram. I send a pic of my memory usage.

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  • ayaya@lemdro.id
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    11 months ago

    16GB should be the absolute bare minimum with 32GB being standard at this point.

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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      11 months ago

      Selling 8GB high end laptops like macbooks with soldered RAM shouldn't be a thing at all. It's such a waste of resources, because devices which could be used in 10 years won't be useful beyond basic word processing and browsing.

      The only reason Apple has them is to have a low starting price while taking 200 USD for 8GB additional RAM. For context, 16GB RAM costs about 50 USD in retail.

    • driveway@lemmy.zip
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      11 months ago

      I think we should strive for either:

      • Not building/using piece of shit platforms MacOS that is very wasteful when it comes to memory management.
      • Not building/using piece of shit applications like electron-based stuff or the window server from this post.

      There is no reason why 8gbs shouldn't be enough, excluding gaming.