Following the unveiling of new MacBook Pro models last week, Apple surprised some with the introduction of a base 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 chip,...

8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro ‘Analogous to 16GB’ on PCs, Claims Apple::Following the unveiling of new MacBook Pro models last week, Apple surprised some with the introduction of a base 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 chip,…

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶English
    103·
    10 months ago

    On my unix-based system, after boot I’m sitting at 2gb usage, while Windows would be at >6GB, so it’s not that far fetched. Until you try to run any applications…

    • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
      93·
      10 months ago

      Windows only takes a lot of RAM if it’s available. Try it out with less RAM and it’s more around 2 GB I think.

      For any computer I use 32 GB seems to be the optimum nowadays.

    • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      I’m sitting at 300 mb usage after boot running Linux and at 250 mb usage on a secondary machine running OpenBSD.

        • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          in Linux I use Sway, although I have XFCE installed as a backup.

          I think that what makes a major difference is disabling all the trash services that distributions have enabled by default and most users never make use of. To be fair, I disable Bluetooth too, that people find useful. But I don’t think that would make that much of a difference.