this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023
-13 points (24.0% liked)

Open Source

31129 readers
322 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
Cloak@lemmy.ml
kevincox@lemmy.ml
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml
-13
Why does open source take up so much memory space on Macos (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by 3yiyo3@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
15 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] driveway@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

I think we should strive for either:

  • Not building/using piece of shit platforms MacOS that is very wasteful when it comes to memory management.
  • Not building/using piece of shit applications like electron-based stuff or the window server from this post.

There is no reason why 8gbs shouldn't be enough, excluding gaming.