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Why are you crying, Windows user? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by calango@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] markz@suppo.fi 95 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Dude's filthy rich. Wish I had gone with the upgrade I planned to do last fall.

[–] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 77 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Back in 2021 I accidentally bought a 64 GB kit rather than the 32 GB one I intended to. No regrets now but really felt like an excess back then.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Ah the times when you could accidentally buy twice as much RAM.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

64 still feels like excess on a Linux machine... But I got mine back in like 2023-2024 so I got lucky

[–] markz@suppo.fi 51 points 2 months ago

It really depends on what you do.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Once you start opening programs your OS is basically negligible.

Sure windows might use 5 gigs of ram on startup. But when you’ve got 100 tabs open using 20 gigs of ram the 3 vs 5 gigs is a drop in the bucket.

[–] zaubentrucker@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you do virtualization it stacks

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago

Came here to say this. I almost never run just 1 computer on my computer.

Base Linux OS + Test/burner VM + Work VM --> want 64 GB

Base Linux OS + Whonix Gateway + Whonix Workstation --> want 64 GB

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, when you're coming from 8gb, that 5 gigs is a big deal. I went overkill with 64, but I'm not going to complain about it.

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[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

holy crap tell me about it.

The server this Lemmy instance is on was bought in August 2024 with 512G ram. I bought another 8x 64G in April 2025 for £610. That is ~£75 a stick of 64G server ram.

I just bought another server to go along side this and was originally planning to buy the same RAM again. It is now £500 per stick. So I've had to instead donate the extra RAM I bought last year to the new ram-less server.

So that's £75 -> £500. Absolutely ridiculous. Would have cost me £8000 in RAM when the rest of the server was ~£2k.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

God damn

[–] gajahmada@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

Indeed. Dude my main pc is just a modest last gen r7 32G with decent gpu. And I'm glad I pulled the trigger for the 16g upgrade last year.

Now I don't personally believe in higher being, but I'll be lying if I'm not nervous everytime I power up the thing. If anything breaks even if I go a tier cheaper I couldn't afford the replacement.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I bought 48 GB DDR5 for my laptop back in September, just before the prices ignited their rocket engines. I paid 120€ I think. Prices now are like 500(ish). Truly insane.

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wish I had gone with the upgrade I planned to do last fall.

I was considering splashing out a bit for some ram upgrades to my laptop from 2018. It's got 8 gig now, but can support 32. Or maybe just one 16gb stick to start slow, it's got overheating issues.

I was watching videos from a IT tech about how he gets performance/cooling upgrades from just replacing thermal paste/putty on chips. Oh, I didn't know about putty on non CPU chips, I guess I'll get some of the right thickess from a store near me. Oh no, looks like that's out of stock. Well, I want to replace everything at once.

Oh here's another place that sells putty, let me get that while I have some time off. Do they have ram too? Oh no, they don't that's ok. I can wait, and get it for myself as a treat for achieving some behavioural goals I have for myself.

After all, why not? It's late October 2025 , I have plenty of time to buy ram whenever I want to.

Late October 2025
Plenty of time to buy ram
October 2025
RAM

Fuckig fUCK FUCKFNGUFKC

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[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Now add a German Shepherd labelled "Firefox" 😝

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[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 52 points 2 months ago (3 children)

all that ram is for my many virtual machines i planned to run and never did because i didn't actually get any practical use out of them

[–] crypt0cler1c@infosec.pub 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Containerize everything

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately I can't run windows 7 in a docker container for the lickable aero theme and nostalgia. The KDE aero themes just don't feel the same either. Lots of subtle things missing.

[–] Infinite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Actually...

https://github.com/dockur/windows

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

holy shit

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 8 points 2 months ago

wait a minute this docker container is just running qemu and a web-based vnc client >:/

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago

There's still time.

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 49 points 2 months ago (2 children)

elon musk inherited an emerald minefrom his father, but your child will inherit 32 full gigabytes of ram

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile, the latest macOS update took away 20% of my battery life and added 15% of ram usage, just because, while the battery life of my Linux laptop is actually getting better with updates.

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[–] callyral@pawb.social 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 7 points 2 months ago

I see what you did there.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Laughs in one year old 128GB RAM on fedora Linux.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

dump a pregant cow next to the kitten labeled "Chromium"

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Now launch one (1) web browser and watch an elephant drop on your sofa.

The OS is no longer relevant to memory usage, really, not in the way it used to be. The amount of memory required for a usable desktop is peanuts compared to the amount required to run a few web-apps.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

One of the many reasons why we need a new and better browser without all the bloat.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's half the problem, the sites are the other.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And the third half is bad math

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[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 months ago

Don't forget to allocate the rest to Firefox, and your swap as well since that's still not enough

[–] spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 18 points 2 months ago

I see you don't run electron app in flatpaks :)

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

just wait until you need to edit some xml in android studio

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The rest of the couch is my podman services

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[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

Why are you crying, Windows user?

Same reason as everyone else who waited to upgrade.

[–] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

Me with ZFS root:

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 10 points 2 months ago

You can still use Chrome in Linux (my wife uses them together on her laptop).

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 10 points 2 months ago

And here I am with a budget 12 GB RAM phone, that will turn out to be flagship tier due to the RAM crisis. Holy fuck.

We were so spoiled, we didn't even know what we had.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The way it should be. If it were Windows you'd have a massive bloated fat cat that can't breathe taking up almost the entire sofa.

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[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 7 points 2 months ago

haha. I have 32GB of RAM in my server, and even though I run a LOT of stuff, it rarely gets past 6 or 7GB used

[–] nykula@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Haven't had memory issues on my Windows 11 laptop so I don't check how much is free. On the other hand, free disk space is jumping between 0 and 10 GB without notification as to what appears or disappears. This is annoyingly unreliable because the space often gets closer to 0 right at the time when I need to Syncthing files with others.

[–] RustySharp@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago

Possibly windows update/defender downloading>installing>deleting files. Might also be the page file, though that doesn't usually shrink that often

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[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

IntelliJ has entered the chat.

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