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.

  • driveway
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    11 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.