• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Doesn’t it use less system resources?

    When Windows 10 isn’t supported anymore, better to use Linux than have an unsecure computer or buy a new computer.

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      5 months ago

      For me windows uses 3-5gb of ram on idle just after starting up. This is pretty consistent across multiple computers for me. On the same computers (I dual-boot on both my laptop and desktop) Linux idles at about 800mb-1.2gb. This was even true on KDE which was one of the “heavier” feature-rich desktop environments. I think Gnome might have been 1.5gb ish but I haven’t used in a while. Either way, it used way less RAM than my windows installs which could noticeably impact some resource intensive programs like blender or davinci resolve