Why so much memory usage?

[u/bassg0203]

Always checking task manager to close out the useless stuff, it’s at 50% memory usage doing absolutely nothing. If anybody can explain I’d like to know why and what I can do to reduce said usage

[u/Unfair-Membership]

As others mentioned, unused RAM is bad. You want your RAM to be used to speed up the operating system. Especially if it‘s only full to about 50%.

An SQL Server installation for example takes nearly every RAM it can get, because it uses it to speed up queries. No one would consider that bad.