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Re:The End of Windows by young_unixer on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:32PM (#16737651)
>disappointingly small 8GB. In my world, I consider 16GB a bare minimum

My main computer has 8GB RAM. I don't know why I would need more than that. Right now I have firefox with 15 tabs, qt creator and 3 terminals open and I'm only using 2.5 GB of RAM. Unless I suddenly wanted to get into heavy video editing I don't think I'll feel the need to upgrade soon.

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Re:The End of Windows by Viper007Bond on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:04PM (#16738042)
The more RAM you have, the more your OS will use. My 16GB laptop is currently using 8-9GB and I don't have much open. What's the point of RAM if you don't use it? If I get low on free RAM, but OS will discard some unneeded stuff but otherwise it properly uses it as a cache.
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Re:The End of Windows by sandov on Monday April 02, 2018 @06:23PM (#16739983)
Almost all operations I command are executed instantly by my computer, so I see no need to use more RAM.

I think a good SSD and GPU are much more important than having a lot of RAM if you want to improve general user experience.

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