FishFace

No thank you, it would wake me up

I be sleeping like a goddamn rotisserie chicken let me tell you

Only if they have parts.

I believe Apple had the rainbow beachball of death ages ago

Yeah and if you’d use Linux your work laptop

which I do so maybe remove your head from wherever it’s stuck and rethink.

Memory use of applications is not especially different between operating systems (assuming no compression). The hand the OS has in memory usage is mainly its own memory usage, but that is dwarfed by application usage. In the case of an application like, say, Firefox, its core is written in languages like C++ with explicit memory management. The same code runs on both platforms, so when you open a webpage, the same data structures are needed in the same quantities. CPU architecture can change how much memory a structure needs, but OS doesn’t. So the application requests essentially the same number of bytes from the operating system, and the OS reserves that many bytes for the use of the application.

You can get into more detail than this, resulting in some small differences, but given that you started with a hilariously wrong assumption I don’t think there’s any need.

This is irrelevant for work, where you need a web browser and work applications (which are probably more web browsers). My work laptop is currently sitting on 33G used out of 64G.

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