• Madeline@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    i had to upgrade my pc from 6gb to 16gb a few years ago because gnome kept stealing all of my ram and then my system would lock up once it was full

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      2 months ago

      never had issues with gnome on my laptop with 4 gbs of ddr3, actually it’s pretty smooth even while running from an 8 year old 5200rpm hdd, even with all the animations and stuff enabled.
      freezes a bit while loading icons in the app menu for the first time after boot but it’s really usable once everything gets cached to ram.

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        2 months ago

        Your experience matches mine more than op’s. In fact I have a super shitty old laptop running gnome on fedora with a 32gb drive and I think 4 GB of RAM, maybe less, and it still sounds better than the experience they’re claiming to have had with 6 gb ram.