Windows was eating a lot of ram on my laptop even on idle, so if was planning to upgrade my ram from 16 to 32 gb, then I checked the prices and made the tactical decision to install Linux instead
Seriously my 7 year old i3 w 12gb of RAM laptop running mint feels more smooth than my new work laptop with 64gb of RAM running windows 11 (and a bunch of corporate clutter)
It’s also quite nice that Linux/etc let you choose what kinds of things you want it to do in low memory situations. I.e. I was getting some OOM process kills mostly because of a modded minecraft server running, and increasing the zswap max pool percentage to 50, changing the zswap compressor to I think zstd, and enlargening my physical swap partition eliminated them.
Windows was eating a lot of ram on my laptop even on idle, so if was planning to upgrade my ram from 16 to 32 gb, then I checked the prices and made the tactical decision to install Linux instead
Seriously my 7 year old i3 w 12gb of RAM laptop running mint feels more smooth than my new work laptop with 64gb of RAM running windows 11 (and a bunch of corporate clutter)
64 gigs on a windows work laptop what a waste, if not Linux if they at least went with a MacBook that would have been such a better use of it
It’s also quite nice that Linux/etc let you choose what kinds of things you want it to do in low memory situations. I.e. I was getting some OOM process kills mostly because of a modded minecraft server running, and increasing the zswap max pool percentage to 50, changing the zswap compressor to I think zstd, and enlargening my physical swap partition eliminated them.
As an aside, I just read that zswap is getting a pretty big performance increase: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Better-Zswap-Performance
Kinda same. I couldn’t get to 11 because of the lack of a TPM. Upgrading is expensive. Linux is not.
Nice, Microsoft has become another tech cancer of a company, it’s good you didn’t upgrade to 11