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Free RAM is wasted RAM :wink:

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That’s how we got modern web browsers and the atrocious win11 start menu to be such RAM hogs (the latter is written in reactjs - literally slowly filling your RAM if you open and close the start menu rapidly). I’ll have my free RAM in reserve to dedicate to the software I’m running, instead of filling it up to the point of using SWAP, thank you very much.

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Browsers use this for caching and Windows is doing windows things. “Saving RAM for bad times” is only needed with bad software. My browser and OS are managing my RAM just fine.

If there is free RAM on my system, it is slower than it should be. 100% is the goal.

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Browsers are bad software. That + thunderbird is what I use my RAM for. All my other software can run on a 2-4GB of RAM box (probably even lower, but I’m not gonna try that).

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Mate you are not getting at all what we are talking about. There is a difference between applications being bloated and not using free RAM. Nobody says applications should not be optimized, what we are saying is that instead of leaving the memory empty it can be used for caching the filesystem and other usual tasks that can be sped up this way.

The applications you are actively running should have priority to get memory they need but instead of leaving the rest of it empty it can passively used. ZFS does this for example and caches the files you are reading there to have quicker access and frees the memory as soon as another applications demands it.

It’s 2025 if possible I’d like for my applications to be smart, or better yet for the OS to handle that. The difference of keeping the data you work on in main memory and reading it from disk can make the difference between it being a fluent experience and stuttering because everything is being read from disk.

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New VM installed. Seeing what it is all about. just got it up.

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Been running lots of different distros over the years (going back to college i 98 when I first learned about Linux.)

I just moved my main gaming box in my home office over to CatchyOS today.
Still have both of my NTFS NVME drives connected, but they are both earmarked for other systems.

New on this forum, but, long time subscriber to the youtube channel, and long time member to Anandtech forum as well. Yall seem like “my people” so wanted to introduce myself and say hello.

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Welcome to the forum!

If I might ask this question, what is the selling point of using CatchyOS? Like what is it good or better at as opposed to other distribution. Asking because I really do not know.

Basically following into the footsteps of e.g. Garuda by building a “just works”-distro, easy install Arch-based system with minor changes like Kernel scheduling and building packages with x86-64-v3 minimum requirements (actually not that special as even RHEL 10 does this now).
pre-installed Alacritty, fastfetch and so on.

Nothing new under the sun, but a compilation of several things that resonates with Gamers.

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So Garuda, Manjaro, CatchyOS are basically different flavors of easy install Arch?

I wouldn’t count Manjaro into that “group” of distros. Manjaro is still a more general-purpose and conservative distro (by Arch standards).

Both over a very wide array of available DE/WM to choose along with changing to different Kernels very easily.

I do like Cachy including ZFS (first Arch-based distro with ZFS?) but I question the use with bleeding edge Kernel. Same with fish as login shell and not including htop but btop…you really want htop for ZFS.

All very “gamery” stuff, but certainly not bloated. I like their approach, but it isn’t for me, but I see the appeal and good work/love put in there.

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Thank you for the explanation. I would very much like better BTRFS And ZFS support but the bleeding edge is not for me anymore either. I am currently fine on Fedora.

I would say Garuda, CachyOS, and EndeavourOS are all in the same niche

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Hello Everybody,

Just joined the forum a few days ago and wanted to say hi.

I’ve been using linux for the last ~ 3,5 years started with Ubuntu went to Pop OS and ended up an Fedora for newer packages and RPM/ SE linux stuff so I learn the RHEL tools better

Pretty old crappy Acer laptop but it does the job and works for what I need.

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Just an update loving this (New to me app. dysk.)

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Hi and welcome to the forum!

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It’s Official! I have finally solved the issue of Bloat! LOL

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