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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.
NEVER!
I bet your comment said something, so I upvoted it
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...
No, if it's a good blocker it's blocking all requests and connections to wherever the ads are being served from. There's usually ALSO a level of cosmetic filtering for things that get past the blocklist or can't be properly filtered because they're coming from the same server as stuff you actually want to see, but with ublock origin set to strict and noscript set to allow only whitelisted sites, my page load times are way faster. Sometimes a shitty webpage will still 'wait around' for a second to try and get a connection from an ad site but it's not loading anything into memory.
But that requires actually READING 😖 /j
Downvoted, textwall!
/j
Tldr pls?
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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
If a snap is bundled with it's own dependencies (the point of snap), those dependency libraries are not loaded into shared memory. Multiple apps that would typically share a loaded dependency must now each load them into RAM.
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.
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.
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.
I totally get it but with the current rampocalypse I'd delay it just for the optics alone