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    [–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Problem that powertoys are becoming bloated too. Before switching my 8gb RAM laptop to Linux, it was constantly swapping memory. I investigated and it was powertoys slowly eating everything. The two almost identical launchers, 300mb each. The eyedropper that you gonna use once a month 200mb, the help that comes out when you long press the windows key, another 80mb. Same for the screen ruler. Then the accent helper, and so on. My 8gb laptop only had 1 GB free Memory After a clean boot

    [–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

    AFAIK there was a memory leak in PowerToys. But it’s definitely ballooned in scope since it was first released. I suppose turning off the parts you don’t need would help but it really should still be more efficient. Doesn’t help that the Microsoft Department of AI Department seems to have started sinking its teeth into it as of the last few updates.

    [–] ackthxbye@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

    The last time I used the power toys was on W10 but can't you choose which components you install? Surely you can disable the autostart for the ones you are not using?

    [–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Isn’t that the entire point of swap? If you’re only gonna access that memory once a month what’s wrong with it swapping to disk but becoming ready within seconds when you go to use it?

    [–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Dude, Windows swaps like it's its job.

    The job of swap is to be used after the RAM is full or is about to be full. It's not to be used instead of the RAM.

    I bet SSDs were a huge freaking performance boost for Windows generally speaking because of the way it swaps.

    [–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    That's not true. Linux by default also moves stuff to swap way earlier. Swap is not just a fallback when you run out of RAM. That is why I think Zram is the best. My system can swap as much as it wants to.

    [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

    Linux swappiness is at least easier to configure + I haven't really noticed it happen on anything with enough RAM to do the job it's doing.

    My 8 GB Thinkpad will swap quite a bit running PyCharm, docker and Firefox on KDE Plasma. My 32 GB desktop has near-zero swap usage and it has even more shit running at all