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    Damn electron and the likes (i.imgur.com)
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    [–] 30p87@feddit.org 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Not in my experience. The electron spotify app + electron discord app + games was too much. Replacing electron with dedicated FF instances worked tho.

    [–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 17 points 1 month ago

    About 6 months ago I upgraded my desktop from 16 to 48 gigs cause there were a few times I felt like I needed a bigger tmpfs.
    Anyway, the other day I set up a simulation of this cluster I'm configuring, just kept piling up virtual machines without looking cause I knew I had all the ram I could need for them. Eventually I got curious and checked my usage, I had just only reached 16 gigs.

    I think basically the only time I use more that the 16 gigs I had is when I fire up my GPU passthrough windows VM that I use for games, which isn't your typical usage.

    [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I have a browser tab addiction problem, and I often run both LibreWolf and Firefox at the same time (reasons). I run discord all the time, signal, have a VTT going on, a game, YouTube playing… and I look at my RAM usage and wonder why did I buy so much when I can never reach 16 GB.

    While I agree electron apps suck and I avoid them… Whatever you guys are running ain’t a typical use case.

    [–] ndondo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

    I have the same problem tab suspender addons really help with that.

    [–] pat277@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

    Even on windows, its hilarious to compare the RAM Discord uses. I caught the native app doing 2+gb, and Firefox beating it by... 100mb? I didnt compare ram usage too hard on my Stram Deck though between Flatpak and Firefox, but I expect firefox to be a bit better with its addons/plugins, like it was on windows