You can achieve good memory footprints with Linux, just 2 or 3 years ago I was daily driving Arch linux with bspwm as a window manager, it used only 300 mb, for me is pretty darn good, but as soon as I opened my vscode with a JS project my ram usage was at 12gb. We have a lot of bloatware everywhere, that’s pretty sad.

edit: This remind me a some rants from Casey Muratori about VS[0] and windows terminal[1]

[0] https://youtu.be/GC-0tCy4P1U

[1] https://youtu.be/hxM8QmyZXtg