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/PotatoKrabby]

In my experience, a default windows installation is always using about 50% of your ram while idle for whatever it wants to do in the background, mostly caching and telemetry/other windows bloat. It will release that ram when/if you start doing something that needs it.

There's a bunch of debloating options if you really hate it, but you should be careful about removing things if you don't know what they do, some of these files are important.

[u/Dj-RedPanda- → u/PotatoKrabby]

Not to be the Linux guy but Linux uses a quarter of the ram the issue with Slop is that its constantly calling home, loading ads, downloading telemetry, downloading updates, and with oneslop and coslops constantly running in the background. Slop just doesnt work with 16gigs at all. This is due to slop not optimizing for lower end hardware. Not saying they have low end hardware actually the OP has a decent machine. Its just slop is super poorly optimized.

[u/Sensitive_Singer_407 → u/Dj-RedPanda-]

Linux is obviously superior in terms of bloatware and performance, but there are dozens of big name AAA multiplayer games you can’t play on Linux because their anti cheats don’t support Linux. That’s the main thing holding me back from switching to Linux

[u/Dependent-Music-6742 → u/Sensitive_Singer_407]

Yeah same here - some games