• AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    The benefit of having unused RAM is that every program you are using can remain in memory for quick multitasking access and when you go to launch a new program it can be loaded into that unused RAM without unloading any of the currently running programs. What part about that is a misunderstanding? Would the user be better off if the application in focus aggressively reserved RAM it didn’t need to slow down every other running application? Because that’s what Photoshop does

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      4 months ago

      What part about that is a misunderstanding?

      The part where you assumed 20GB is 100% of OP’s RAM, leaving nothing for any other programs.