Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control

Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
 

the [Linux] OS us[ed] swap, when main RAM and cache
saturated the 32 GB.

 
That doesn't actually mean you *need* 32GB.

 
Oh sure, I'll just rely on swap!  Great, back to the 1990s, heh.

 
The OS will always try to maximise RAM usage regardless of how much you
have. In and of itself is not evidence of the need for that amount of RAM.
 
In modern systems there's no noticeable difference when dipping into swap.
Certainly not when flushing caches. PCI SSD and NVMe hardware are a world
away from slow spinners of the 90s.
 
Despite building your own PC (big deal!) you seem quite ignorant on how it
works. Sounds like a Mac would actually be better for you. lol.

 
 
The point is, I could run with less RAM, but it'd use swap heavily.

There's no evidence of that. Especially given the types of apps you run.

32
GB is about right, for how I use a PC.

I have a mac with 32GB - not my choice - and use much more resource
demanding apps than you which I almost never use all of it.