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    [–] vinyl@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

    Always see my system chilling at 5 or 6 gb

    [–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

    Big dawg here running a supercomputer with 4 gigs of RAM. /s

    [–] mlg@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

    I ran with 8gb ram for 7 years because zram would shove my swap into what little ram I had available and it actually worked well enough that I didn't feel like upgrading until this year lol.

    [–] madeline@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    i had to upgrade my pc from 6gb to 16gb a few years ago because gnome kept stealing all of my ram and then my system would lock up once it was full

    [–] vox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    never had issues with gnome on my laptop with 4 gbs of ddr3, actually it's pretty smooth even while running from an 8 year old 5200rpm hdd, even with all the animations and stuff enabled.
    freezes a bit while loading icons in the app menu for the first time after boot but it's really usable once everything gets cached to ram.

    [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Your experience matches mine more than op's. In fact I have a super shitty old laptop running gnome on fedora with a 32gb drive and I think 4 GB of RAM, maybe less, and it still sounds better than the experience they're claiming to have had with 6 gb ram.

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    [–] FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

    I actually downgraded my Laptop from 16 to 8 gig DDR3L and did not spot a difference

    [–] dadarobot@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I was working on an app that needed to run on windows. Between chrome and virtual box, i absolutely had to upgrade to more than 16G

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    I put in 64GB because I'm a piece of shit and those empty memory slots looked bad

    [–] mp3@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    4GB of RAM: load a model into llama.cpp

    Explodes

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    [–] penquin@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    That's why I have 16GB on my main pc. The highest I've ever seen it was 8GB while playing Alan wake 2

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    [–] snownyte@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    General rule of thumb with building systems - "you never know..." so better safe than sorry.

    [–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, but when it comes to RAM and Storage, the other golden rule is that the longer you delay your upgrade the cheaper it will be (assuming you'll even need it) or the more you can get for the same money.

    So there are two competing pulls in this.

    this is so real.

    [–] Ravenson@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

    As somebody with a System76 laptop, I'm feeling personally attacked.

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