Right, but that’s not a high memory problem, that’s a Windows is shit at managing memory problem.


If MS fixed that, you could easily run memory hot at >90% without issue.


It’s also a software developers are making poor products problem. Even back when I was on Windows, I swapped out MS Office for Libre Office and then OnlyOffice. In both cases, my system performed better just by not running MS Office. That’s not a memory usage problem.


On my work laptop. which runs Windows, I removed the entire Adobe suite, which I don’t use for anything, and my overall system responsiveness increased. Again, not a memory issue, an poor programming issue.


Devs (the companies, not the individual programmers) know that users will throw more RAM at a problem, so it absolves them of the need to write better code. If Windows had a better memory manager, and Office and Adobe were more efficient, you wouldn’t need more RAM.


Also, just to clarify a point. Right now, web browsers, the worst abuser of memory, are taking up 24GB of ram on my system.


Because I have no memory swapping issues, I keep many open web browsers, which most people can’t if they are on Windows because it’s crap at memory management.


So our list grows to, crappy memory management on Windows, crappy development of web browsers, crappy development of applications, and crappy web pages (as you say).


None of that is a low memory problem, it’s all poor software development. When RAM was super expensive, developers (again companies, not individuals) got lazy and stopped caring about efficiency.


We don’t need more RAM, we need better code. There is no reason anyone running normal usage should need that much RAM.


To make my point, I just SSHed into my wife’s Linux PC, which she never closes anything, and this is her memory usage with a bunch of browsers doing all the normal things she does, and multiple spreadsheets open in OnlyOffice.


Memory: Total: 16278284 Used: 6254884 Available 10023400