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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Niri release 0.1.3 - the horizontally scrolling tiling wayland WM (github.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is not, especially when you're compiling something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I work on a codebase larger than the linux kernel and firefox combined and still don't come remotely close to running out of memory on my laptop

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's great, but yours is not the universal experience since different tasks have different RAM requirements, even within the realm of programming. I had RAM shortages when I was running the Haskell LSP server and compiler at the same time on a largish project. Haskell's type checker does a lot more than other mainstream languages' which is how it delivers such strong correctness guarantees. You trade RAM for scrutiny. Then the LSP server has to be fast so it has to do a lot of caching, and you get an additional trade of yet more RAM for speed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure, if you're in very specific workflows, but with how cheap memory is, zram, etc it's hardly a problem anymore for the everyday user

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, but some of us aren't the everyday user.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Idk about that. I was talking mostly about Android