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Please everyone read or at least skim articles before posting. The article literally says, that it's "an honest bump" to allow typical usage like web browsing and multitasking.
Might as well bump it to 64 GB and an LLM chip since in 5 years' time people might like Copilot & Friends spying a bit less on them.
so use a lighter-weight de (xfce, lxqt, budgie), and don't go crazy with brower tabs or open applications, and you'll be ok.. like you're probably already doing now if you've got a 'marginal' pc.
Correct.
But that's not honest.
Ubuntu's default browser, and other apps, are snap-based. They take significantly more resourced than their Debian counterparts.
They don't take significantly more RAM
Web browsing is the real murder here.. and i dont want to know how much memory is solely spent on ads
The week after GDPR went into effect was amazing. Almost nobody was ready, so they just turned off all their ads and tracking for European IPs while they figured it out. Pages loaded pretty much instantly.
None if you use a good adblocker, like you should be doing.
I thought ad blockers just blocked ads from showing, not that they stopped them from being downloaded...
NEVER!
I bet your comment said something, so I upvoted it
But that requires actually READING 😖 /j
Downvoted, textwall!
/j
Tldr pls?
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I'm concerned about in-system bloat because I read the linked article.
The desktop itself isn't the only reason that you need more RAM, but it's definitely one of them.
I totally get it but with the current rampocalypse I'd delay it just for the optics alone