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submitted 9 months ago by 3yiyo3@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

I have macbook air with M1 chip, I wish I could change to linux but unfortunately I cant so I try to stick as much as possible to using open source on macos. But i cant understand why FOSS apps take up so much space in memory. I'm even getting messages that says that I dont have space left in memory and i must close apps, and I thought that chip M1 was enough with 8gb of ram. I send a pic of my memory usage.

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[-] jlow@beehaw.org 7 points 9 months ago

Mh, that's unfortunate. Do closed-source apps use less RAM? Like MS Office compared to Libre Office? Not sure if it would be fair to compare Safari to Librewolf since it's probably optimized for MacOS. I think generally programs become less RAM efficient since people tend to have more nowadays.

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