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[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

does it still use the same amount of ram as windows? :/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What are you doing that cinnamon uses that much Ram? For me it is like half the ram idle compared to windows 10. Maybe a bug?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

tbf it probably is still significantly less that windows, i was being a bit facetious...but it's still at like 1-1,5gb idling on a fresh boot (this is the whole DE, not just cinnamon)...

i did a fresh install with mate on an old machine though and it was a lot less (the usual 500mb or something) can't see anything suspicious running though - and yes I did check without any stuff running in the background like steam which is also stupidly intensive with their webkit nonsense

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

RAM is there to be used to make things faster.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

electron has entered the room