Linux aint perfect either. Look at the memory usage of most modern "fully featured" distros. They're using damn near as much at idle as windows is. Same thing going back 10 years in time.

The key is with windows you get one windows, and maybe some tweaks. With linux you could go with a hyper minimal DE with not much in the way of shiny features and go a whole lot further.

[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Linux also uses a lot of ram for disk caching, it's flagged as a form of available memory so there's no performance overheard for this.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Disk caching is almost never included in the ram usage numbers. Or if it is it's specified as caching, but still not factored into the number.

[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Huh TIL, had a look through my system and it sits at about ~5GB not including disk cache. Been on Fedora KDE since 39 and have put it through its paces so I'm pretty happy with that

I would've reformatted windows twice in that time because of bloat accumulation, and like you said there's always room for improvement with hyper minimalist packages.

God I love Linux.

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