It’s an illuminating experience to go to a store with Apple computers with 8GB of RAM on display, and browse to a RAM-heavy unoptimized website like YouTube or even Reddit now.
Open a few tabs.
Open a dozen.
You’d be surprised what a decently coded OS can pull off without compromising on the visuals.
This is something people who call themselves tech nerds often don’t understand, they only seem understand “bigger number better!”.
I have a vastly more enjoyable experience with a Mac than most Windows machines, (for many reasons, but most importantly for what you said).
They’re raising it because of RAM needs of browsers and GNOME.
If you’re a shell nerd like me, you’ll still be fine running it on a potato.
It’s an illuminating experience to go to a store with Apple computers with 8GB of RAM on display, and browse to a RAM-heavy unoptimized website like YouTube or even Reddit now.
Open a few tabs.
Open a dozen.
You’d be surprised what a decently coded OS can pull off without compromising on the visuals.
This is something people who call themselves tech nerds often don’t understand, they only seem understand “bigger number better!”. I have a vastly more enjoyable experience with a Mac than most Windows machines, (for many reasons, but most importantly for what you said).
Bigger is always better. For hardware specs.
On the other hand, less is always more for software.
It’s not size that matters but how you use it
I always thought Gnome 3 was bloated.
Gnome 3 was a fad anyway
I switched to Mate for a while at the time, but then realised I liked XFCE even more.
A full potato? Lol, when I was young I had nothing but a french fry, scavenged from a McDonald’s bin.
You had McDonalds? That was just a farm in my day. Eee-eye-eee-eye-oh!
Nah, my village just had the bin