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might be a form of Jevons Paradox (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 123 points 1 month ago

On Linux it really is noticeable

[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 127 points 1 month ago

Well, until you open a browser... or five, because these days nobody wants to build native applications anymore and instead they shove webapps into electron containers.

Right now, my laptop doesn't have to run much. Just a combination of KDE, browser, emails, music player, a couple of messengers and some background services. In total, that uses about 9.5 GB of RAM. 20 years ago we would have run the same workload with less than 1 GB.