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Oregon Coast Trail And here's why the HP Dev One (it was a #Linux laptop that shipped with Pop OS ootb) with its 16GB of RAM just wasn't cutting it for me.
And I'm not even a developer. I'm just over here doing marketing and community management stuff!
@killyourfm Wow, whenever I get close to that usage (my system only has 24GiB of RAM), it's because I wrote a memory leak (or allocated too much memory).
@killyourfm What does marketing and community management entail that uses so much RAM? A bunch of browser tabs? Electron applications?
@teivel I'm running about 30 browser tabs (Firefox), Thunderbird (with 4 accounts), ProtonMail Bridge, Element, Slack, Joplin...and that's about it.
Strangely, KDE's System Monitor doesn't come close to accounting for all this RAM usage at the moment...
@killyourfm that doesn't sound right, afaik that shouldn't use that much RAM...
Have you tried things like Franz and Ferdium, they are embedded chromium Browsers for things like slack, WhatsApp and discord; electron Apps with a web equivalent, gets you most of 5h3 way to a desktop app without needing multiple instances of electron, and as a bonus, they don't share cookies/information afaik.
@teivel We solved it deeper in the thread. Apparently it's KDE's indexing service, which can be safely disabled or even removed. But wow, what a RAM hog...
@killyourfm I saw it after typing that comment, glad you solved it!
My experience with krunner was; I saw a friend using Spotlight on their Mac, thought: I'm sure Linux has something similar, found krunner, it started indexing the whole system, stopped krunner, never used it again.
After that I switched to i3 and got used to dmenu then rofi, and realized I just wanted something to search for apps, so I never needed file indexing at all...
Only if you keep files organized tho