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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by thdrdt on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:07AM (#23219665)
I upgraded from 8 to 16GB. But I'm in the process of ordering a new desktop that will have 32GB.

Spotify and Slack are not problematic as individual programs but since I have a lot of other programs open they are the ones that take up more memory than they should. I mean: Spotify is just a music player. Why does it need 250MB RAM?

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by tomsmeding on Monday May 18, 2020 @07:04AM (#23220887)
Because it is not just a music player. It plays music, aside from giving you an entire experience that consists of connecting with your friends, managing your music library, consuming ads, having a constant connection with the server, and ...

This was meant to be sarcastic, but I'm not even sure how to continue. Maybe someone else can bulk up that list to get to something that requires 250MB. :)

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by theandrewbailey on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:43AM (#23221592)
64GB RAM is borderline reasonable today. Why not jump to that?
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by SomeoneFromCA on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:04AM (#23222437)
It probably uses it for buffering.
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