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Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage (www.tomshardware.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Windows takes a percentage of your available RAM, you can boot it on 4GB RAM and it will use 1GB of so

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Sure, and there are some performance gains to be made from it I'm sure, but when my OS is doing that and my web browser is doing that and my browser based chat client and my browser based text editor are all doing that, it gets pretty sluggish.

This is why Linux is a godsend for older machines, even running the exact same applications (Firefox, Discord, and vscode) on the exact same hardware, it still feels more responsive on Linux because there is less overhead from the OS itself.