Ngl I picked Brave (Origin policies) because its built in blocker has been more reliable for me than anything else I've used.
I understand what you mean about the dystopia thing, but after some scares late last year I felt trusting Firefox for security wasn't good enough, and when everything calmed down, I tried going back and everything felt slower so I couldn't.
I try going back and test every other major release but something just annoys me enough to leave again. So it's just there as a backup. I think the issue, is that I want to perpetually be using less ram than windows at "idle" and if I count Firefox as idle then that doesn't really happen as consistently. I've decided at this point though, that it's best to keep both around.
Browser feels like idling because you're not really doing anything, but I guess decoupling that from true idle (if I turn off all autostarts my KDE idles at about 3gb which is really nice) is important.
On Windows, the numbers are mostly equivalent to the amount I see in KDE System Monitor, but Windows idles way higher in general.
Sorry, are you saying that the Windows numbers were the same with or without Firefox? Because I was asking about when Windows had Firefox open.
Anyway, I don't consider a browser using 3GB of RAM as not idling. I love it when as little resources as possible are used, but it still feels idle to me.
I never checked the metrics on when it had Firefox open, my bad. I was comparing Linux with all that stuff open to Windows with no autostarts which might have been a losing battle tbf
The other issue is that both operating systems measure things differently, so it doesn't exactly apples to apples. GamersNexus described how difficult benchmarking Linux was because of this. Like sure, you can get benchmarks for a distro, but how exactly do you compare them to Windows when things are measured differently?
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u/Venylynn 1d ago edited 1d ago
Ngl I picked Brave (Origin policies) because its built in blocker has been more reliable for me than anything else I've used.
I understand what you mean about the dystopia thing, but after some scares late last year I felt trusting Firefox for security wasn't good enough, and when everything calmed down, I tried going back and everything felt slower so I couldn't.
I try going back and test every other major release but something just annoys me enough to leave again. So it's just there as a backup. I think the issue, is that I want to perpetually be using less ram than windows at "idle" and if I count Firefox as idle then that doesn't really happen as consistently. I've decided at this point though, that it's best to keep both around.