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GoblinSlayer on July 12, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Desktop Environments Resource Usage Comparison

Free RAM is used as disk cache and sacrificed to web 2.0 jabbscript SPA blogs that try to improve your browsing experience by consuming more RAM than you have.

ChuckNorris89 on July 12, 2022 [–]

OS RAM usage and website browser RAM usage are two different things.

GoblinSlayer on July 12, 2022 | [–]

They consume the same RAM. There's no infinite web 2.0 RAM.

ChuckNorris89 on July 12, 2022 | | [–]

My point was about who's using it. You can't blame the OS that bloated websites and browsers need too much RAM.

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