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    [–] Dave@lemmy.nz 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    I use a shit load of RAM on Linux. You guys clearly have amateur numbers when it comes to how many applications you have open at once.

    [–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    And hitting high memory pressure is really not fun on Linux (on Fedora at least), it simply locks up and slows down to a crawl and does nothing for minutes until the oom killer finally kills the bad program. I've kind of solvd this by installing a better oom killer on my laptop, but my desktop was easy: buy 32GB of additional ram for like 90$: problem solved

    [–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 weeks ago

    I like to have a 50GB+ swap file. Though Fedora is a bit weird with swap files as by default it's stored in RAM (Yes, extra space for RAM is stored in RAM. I... admit I don't understand the detail).

    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Hmm, it's been a few years since I've run Fedora, but that's an experience also still stuck in my head from that time.

    I always figured, Linux had just gotten better at that, because I switched to a more up-to-date distro afterwards, but in retrospect, it's not like Fedora is terribly out of date, so maybe that is just a weird configuration on Fedora...

    [–] pennomi@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

    It’s not hard to max out when doing simulations in Blender, but I know I have a niche use case.

    [–] lukstru@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Multiple Firefox windows, at least one JetBrains IDE, and some other apps and I fill 20-30GBs easily. Sometimes on the lower end, sometimes on the higher end.

    [–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 weeks ago

    Multiple Firefox windows? I'm not that civilised, I just have 100+ tabs in the one window.