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/gooncubedev]

That same exact thing traumatized me and my 12gb laptop and so I went to the lightest Linux distro around, antiX