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Does Linux use less RAM? (www.youtube.com)
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Games need more RAM, but prices are abysmal. Unfortunate, I know. But before you empty your wallet for an upgrade, what if the answer is switching to the penguin side? I ran two identical test benches in real-world workloads to find out if ditching Windows is the only memory upgrade you actually need.

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[โ€“] luthis 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it possible to run steam like that?

[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 1 week ago

That's what the Steam Deck and Steam Machine (and probably Steam Frame) do. They have a lightweight Wayland compositor called gamescope to run the Steam UI and games on.