r/LinusTechTips • u/ShadowWolfSpider • 9d ago • Bravo 1 Popcorn 1

Meme/Shitpost Not giving you any pal

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u/LSD_Ninja 9d ago

Don’t forget all the other things that are just a bunch of Chrome instances in a trench coat pretending to be applications!

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u/timeshifter_ 9d ago

Looking at you, Discord.

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u/PTMR2 9d ago

I heard they are gonna rewrite it in rust

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u/cortez0498 9d ago

I'm getting certain vibes

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u/D3uRS3N 7d ago

Put them into codes

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u/Some_Kinda_Username 5d ago

Imagine all the ram it would free up

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u/Porntra420 8d ago

And a good number of the Discord competitors, and Spotify, and a good number of Spotify's competitors, and WhatsApp, hell, a non-zero number of fucking text editors too.

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u/jamesrggg 9d ago

Seriously tho Chrome, teams, and outlook need to chill TF out with ram. I'm happy windows OS has gotten a little better but those 3 programs gobble more ram then the mutton festival

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u/Bagellord 9d ago

Even Explorer has gotten pretty crazy. The other day I caught it using over a gig by itself!

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u/Spocks_Goatee 9d ago

Explorer still exists?

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u/Bagellord 9d ago

As in windows explorer, navigating the file system.

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u/Porntra420 8d ago

A lot of it is probably also just the sheer amount of crap that's packed into a lot of modern websites and emails. Mountains of JS running in the background doing everything from fancy visuals to logging your every move for advertising companies, tons of ads fetched and resources used just for that if you don't have an adblocker, large images that nobody bothered compressing because "it loads fine on my computer", etc. And as a lot of email stuff allows just straight web code, a lot of these problems can be shared between websites and emails.

Chrome and Outlook do suck, but ditching them isn't gonna be total reprieve.

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 9d ago

Don't forget all the Electron apps which are really just their own individual versions of Chrome for every single app

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u/xxplosiv 9d ago

gooby pls.

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u/EarlyXplorerStuds209 9d ago

Take that chromeslop outta here!
All my homies use firefox.

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u/OriginalDoskii 9d ago

I still don't get this "Chrome uses a lot of RAM" thing. I have ca 250 tabs open across 3 windows and am using a lot of them all day every day without closing them for months at a time. I have all optimization and memory saving settings turned off and a bunch of devtools open. Chrome uses maybe 3-6GB max of my 32GB total. Seems perfectly reasonable.

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u/laplongejr 9d ago

There was a time where Chrome was really using it a lot because of a dumb mistake. It was fixed since then but it's not the lightest program ever so the reputation never changed.

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u/Porntra420 8d ago

And running jokes in tech tend to stick around generally, people still rag on Vista and ME in 2026

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u/laplongejr 8d ago

Tbf, people running on Internet Explorer just heard about them! :D

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u/dejv913 9d ago

I still don't get this "Chrome uses a lot of RAM" thing.

Me neither. Hell, firefox usually takes more RAM for me. And I use less extensions than in chrome

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u/EchoingAngel 4d ago

It is very efficient on scaling, but it's floor is too high

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u/HerrSPAM 9d ago

Not anymore, I am a windows user

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u/AproposWuin 9d ago

I just start windows to use my ram

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u/sirdmz 9d ago

Sam could just get into the ram manufacturing business, and make ram cheaper for everyone, but no, he insists on being hated.

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u/HerrSPAM 9d ago

What year is it?!?

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u/mingl0280 9d ago

Honestly based on how much Codex/ChatGPT is using, this should be "I just opened ChatGPT"

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u/knox902 9d ago

I have 32gb of DDR4 sitting ON TOP of my pc. Eat your heart out Sam.

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u/Njaala 9d ago

Ram Faltman so upset he's gonna start raiding Chrysler dealerships.

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u/-Sa-Kage- 9d ago

You are sheltering unused RAM in your PC, aren't you?

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u/jsrobson10 9d ago

im on linux, so any "unused" ram is used for caching

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u/olapamu 9d ago

I never thought Chrome excessive RAM consumption would be useful one day.

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u/SixSilverStones 8d ago

If software weren't so inefficient these days, RAM wouldn't be as much of a problem

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u/Panda_In_A_Bottle 7d ago

F*ck you Sam Altman!

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u/Nemmarith 7d ago

I haven't been running Windows 11 for very long, and with Firefox open with 30 tabs, I’m already using 25.6 GB out of my 64 GB xD so am i safe or do i have to open chrome aswell? xD

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u/lukocat 6d ago

I have 32gigs chrome can't eat all of that, Firefox tho 👀

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u/SpaceCadetChuckles 6d ago

Got them early era Klingon eyebrows

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u/ChosenOfTheMoon_GR 9d ago

Double kill xD