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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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just watched the vjdeo. It is absolute garbage. Their systems both had 32 GB of RAM and neither got anywhere near that. No mention of how they measured it so it is quite possible that they were counting file descriptors on Windows but not on Linux or vice versa.

Sure, Windows was using almost twice as much RAM as Linux. But as long as you have the RAM, who cares? The real struggle begins when you need as much as possible but they didn't show that at all. But they only got up to 17 GB on Windows and 11 GB on Linux. With 32 GB available on both.

I'd love Gamer's Nexus to do a similar video with actually robust and comparable testing methodology.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago

It's LTT. YouTube's Sharper Image catalog. No one takes them seriously.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

as long as you have the RAM, who cares?

It's 2026 and NOBODY HAS THE RAM

[-] yaroto98@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Unused RAM is wasted RAM. So long as it's properly managed.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

But they only got up to 17 GB on Windows and 11 GB on Linux. With 32 GB available on both.

In other words, if the systems had 16GB instead, it might've made a huge difference. Too bad they didn't pull a stick from each system and check again.

[-] eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

Yes I was waiting for 16 and then 8 GB comparisons. Comparing RAM usage without needing 100 % of it is useless, because as others have said, unused RAM is wasted RAM.

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

I didn't understand why they tested it with 16gb ram instead. Like when the video ended I thought my video stuck but nope they just stopped with no proper details nothing. Is this LTT now?

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