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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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You think windows is causing the ram issue? Come on, you can't blame every bad sw in existence on them. Have you seen chrome? Electron?
Win 11 recommends 4 gb ram. Chrome uses 12. Who is the problem?
Other oses use significantly less ram so yeah I think it's fair to say windows uses too much ram.
I don't quite follow what you're saying here but I can say without hesitation any version of Linux versus any windows version of the same era have been night and day for me performance wise. And I've been trying the two since windows 98 days.
It sounds like you have a lot of experience with running out of memory that I don't have. I'm curious -- how much ram do you have in the laptop you switched to windows? I don't think I've experienced running out of memory recently. Been running Linux for like 3 years now and I've always felt every possible aspect is far snappier. Regarding ops comment about windows being the ram problem, I think they just were referring to it using a lot of ram, which it does. You're calling it a few Mb and that's just not accurate. I can't say for sure what exact difference it was for me, but years ago I compared windows 10 to pop os. I think the difference was not far from a GB. And we can split hairs about what specifically occupies ram. Services, kernel, third party apps. The fact is that windows culture is different in a very bad way. You have to opt out of apps running on startup constantly, manually checking settings under an "advanced" tab often.. I vastly prefer the culture of bloat being opt-in in almost every case. There are dozens of reasons I prefer Linux but the fact that it just runs faster without effort specifically to make that happen, is atop the list.
Interesting take...
What would you need one for?
Genuinely confused here. To receive email? What's the purpose of leaving it running all the time? The only difference in the setup I have and what you seem to want is that instead of clicking an email icon on the dock and waiting ~1second, you want to see a notification in the tray? Given that email is 90% noise no matter how many things I unsubscribe from, the last thing I want is a constant stream of notifications on yet another device.
I feel like specifically because I run Linux all my apps launch faster so yes I prefer to close them when not in use. Feels a lot cleaner for my mental model. Don't get me wrong, I often run 6-8 apps at a time if I need to. But even then I don't think I go much beyond 8 GB of ram used, unless I'm gaming.
I'm not contradicting myself and I understood all that. You didn't get what I was saying.
I was simply saying that you want something I'd never want. Has nothing to do with a distaste for email. Has to do with adding stress to my life while also using my system resources. And I was pointing out the only non-stress difference is I have to click once to open my email and it loads very fast. I wouldn't see any value in what you see as a minimum requirement. I'd actually go to a lot of trouble to disable that if it were on by default lol
It sounds like you're a person who not only uses chrome but also dozens or hundreds of tabs. I'm opposite to all that. I stand by my claim that Linux performs far better and I suspect I'd think so even if I wanted to run a lot of ram hungry apps at the same time tbh, because I just haven't experienced literally anything you're saying.
Windows is pretty bloated on its own
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