The reason is the rising memory chip prices. The memes about RAM prices are funny and all, but the consequences of the memory supply crunch are anything...
You want to keep RAM full of stuff you aren’t using right now. That stuff can be erased almost instantly if you need the RAM for something else. That’s why OSs list “Available RAM” and “Free RAM” as two separate things.
Removing all the idle apps from RAM just means you need to wait longer every time you open one of them.
Yes, this is true, and I have preached this in the past, but…
They’re not treating it as a cache. Most of these apps don’t function with less ram.
It’s just inefficiencies stacked on inefficiencies. And yeah, they didn’t matter a ton at first, because our hardware was advancing fast enough to handle it. But at some point we should really go back and visit a lot of this stuff.
A 2014 computer should have gotten better at all the basic tasks that existed then, not worse.
The Windows 11 start menu being built on React is a good example. Insanity.
That’s because empty RAM is wasted RAM.
You want to keep RAM full of stuff you aren’t using right now. That stuff can be erased almost instantly if you need the RAM for something else. That’s why OSs list “Available RAM” and “Free RAM” as two separate things.
Removing all the idle apps from RAM just means you need to wait longer every time you open one of them.
Yes, this is true, and I have preached this in the past, but…
They’re not treating it as a cache. Most of these apps don’t function with less ram.
It’s just inefficiencies stacked on inefficiencies. And yeah, they didn’t matter a ton at first, because our hardware was advancing fast enough to handle it. But at some point we should really go back and visit a lot of this stuff.
A 2014 computer should have gotten better at all the basic tasks that existed then, not worse.
The Windows 11 start menu being built on React is a good example. Insanity.