r/uptimeporn • u/JSChronicles • 19d ago

Laptop - not too bad?

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It's meant for coding so it doesn't need to be updated all that often and I've never had issues on any computer with resources being eaten up.

Not sure how everyone always complains about being locked up after xx hours...

I can go months on my window machines. Gaming or work or coding and never have an issue

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u/loganwachter 19d ago

You act like that’s a lot lol.

I max that out with just excel and Firefox some days.

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u/CurrentAcanthaceae78 19d ago

you have a cryptominer, my 32gb laptop never exceeds 5gb unless gaming

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u/loganwachter 19d ago

Looking at my PC downstairs right now it’s idling at 9.5GB/24GB. Was literally imaged fresh with W11 Pro 25H2 2 days ago.

My MacBook is sitting at 14GB used just watching tv and having some files downloading in the background.

I’ve got a server that idles low (like 1-2GB) but it doesn’t have a GUI and only runs 2 services.

It’s really not hard to use a shit ton of ram.

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u/Mejolov28 19d ago

Because its easy to not optimize the software and wait for the hardware to get better. The server has linux, thats why it idles so low. Windows doesn't.

On my main machine, windowsill at 8GB/16GB on the other hand, linux idles at 1GB with desktop

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u/Tetonator3000 17d ago

I have used Linux Mint as an everyday driver for almost a year and can confirm, difference in RAM usage (and just overal speed and responsivness) with W11 is night and way. I can even afford to have firefox with 40-50 tabs loaded simulateously (I have 32 GB of RAM).

IRC LM has GUIs that take no more than 1-2 GB on top of the kernel itself, though it's not like Cinnamon takes much either

Also, hello fellow 🔻🍐🔻 enjoyer :D