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    [–] vinyl@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

    Always see my system chilling at 5 or 6 gb

    [–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

    Big dawg here running a supercomputer with 4 gigs of RAM. /s

    [–] mlg@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

    I ran with 8gb ram for 7 years because zram would shove my swap into what little ram I had available and it actually worked well enough that I didn't feel like upgrading until this year lol.

    [–] Aux@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    If your Linux is not using 99% of RAM, then it's misconfigured.

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    [–] dadarobot@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I was working on an app that needed to run on windows. Between chrome and virtual box, i absolutely had to upgrade to more than 16G

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    I put in 64GB because I'm a piece of shit and those empty memory slots looked bad

    [–] madeline@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 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 6 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.

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    [–] mp3@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    4GB of RAM: load a model into llama.cpp

    Explodes

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    [–] snownyte@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    General rule of thumb with building systems - "you never know..." so better safe than sorry.

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    [–] Ravenson@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

    As somebody with a System76 laptop, I'm feeling personally attacked.

    [–] FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

    I actually downgraded my Laptop from 16 to 8 gig DDR3L and did not spot a difference

    this is so real.

    [–] penquin@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    That's why I have 16GB on my main pc. The highest I've ever seen it was 8GB while playing Alan wake 2

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    [–] poopsmith@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I was running out of RAM on my 16GB system for years (just doing normal work tasks), so I finally upgraded to a new laptop with 64GB of RAM. Now I never run out of memory.

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