Before installing Linux, I had originally planned to dual-boot on my main PC, but somehow a gaming rig from 5 years ago isn’t good enough to run windows 11, which is ridiculous.

  • relativestranger@feddit.nl
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    5 hours ago

    and all the oem bundleware. i knocked-down fresh boot idle active ram usage from 5.5gb to 3.5gb on a new dell desktop just by uninstalling anything that had ‘dell’ in the name.

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      2 hours ago

      While idle RAM usage can be an indicator of background load, RAM that’s not in use is RAM wasted. Best is for idle memory to cache files, libraries and programs for faster load times than to sit unused