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Re:Even with a $199 Laptop, Clear Linux Can Offer Superior P... by pgcj_poster on Thursday February 06, 2020 @06:07PM (#22261419)
I have never owned a computer with more than 4GB of RAM. It's fine as long as you don't embed separate copies of chromium in your text editor, IRC-substitute, and music player.
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Re:Even with a $199 Laptop, Clear Linux Can Offer Superior P... by bxparks on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:52PM (#22263323)
I'm impressed that you can be productive with 4GB. On my dev laptop, I am often hitting 14-15GB usage. Chrome, Docker, NodeJS, and VSCode are the main culprits. I'm upgrading the machine to 32GB this weekend.
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Re:Even with a $199 Laptop, Clear Linux Can Offer Superior P... by pdimitar on Thursday February 06, 2020 @07:04PM (#22261819)
More RAM -- and using the ECC kind -- definitely improved my compilation speeds.

But maybe your workflow doesn't include compilation?

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Re:Even with a $199 Laptop, Clear Linux Can Offer Superior P... by cellularmitosis on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:54PM (#22263090)
Was that a non sequitur or are you saying that ECC ram had an impact on compilation speed?
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