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    you don't need more 4GB of RAM (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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    [–] madeline@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    i had to upgrade my pc from 6gb to 16gb a few years ago because gnome kept stealing all of my ram and then my system would lock up once it was full

    [–] vox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    never had issues with gnome on my laptop with 4 gbs of ddr3, actually it's pretty smooth even while running from an 8 year old 5200rpm hdd, even with all the animations and stuff enabled.
    freezes a bit while loading icons in the app menu for the first time after boot but it's really usable once everything gets cached to ram.

    [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Your experience matches mine more than op's. In fact I have a super shitty old laptop running gnome on fedora with a 32gb drive and I think 4 GB of RAM, maybe less, and it still sounds better than the experience they're claiming to have had with 6 gb ram.

    [–] madeline@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

    this was a few years back around gnome 41 maybe, who knows if things have changed since then or if something was just really wrong with my install. can’t really test anymore because i kind of already upgraded the pc

    [–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

    Intel driver is the key to the problem. They have no memory leak issues as others did. At least not ti such a degree.

    [–] madeline@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    it was really smooth on my pc too until i ran out of ram and then it would just freeze

    [–] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    yeah you need to mess around with snappiness to avoid that
    (so either increase it to make it unload stuff to hdd earlier, leaving more ram for critical stuff, or decrease it to like 5 in order to make it only use swap when absolutely needed) basically just mess around with it and see what value works best. i my case 10-15 works more or less okay-ish under full ram load