Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoUbuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square201linkfedilinkarrow-up1572arrow-down116
arrow-up1556arrow-down1external-linkUbuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018www.tomshardware.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square201linkfedilink
minus-squareFmstrat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days agoBut that’s not honest. Ubuntu’s default browser, and other apps, are snap-based. They take significantly more resourced than their Debian counterparts.
minus-square20dogs@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoThey don’t take significantly more RAM
minus-squareFmstrat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoIf a snap is bundled with it’s own dependencies (the point of snap), those dependency libraries are not loaded into shared memory. Multiple apps that would typically share a loaded dependency must now each load them into RAM.
But that’s not honest.
Ubuntu’s default browser, and other apps, are snap-based. They take significantly more resourced than their Debian counterparts.
They don’t take significantly more RAM
If a snap is bundled with it’s own dependencies (the point of snap), those dependency libraries are not loaded into shared memory. Multiple apps that would typically share a loaded dependency must now each load them into RAM.