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I have macbook air with M1 chip, I wish I could change to linux but unfortunately I cant so I try to stick as much as possible to using open source on macos. But i cant understand why FOSS apps take up so much space in memory. I'm even getting messages that says that I dont have space left in memory and i must close apps, and I thought that chip M1 was enough with 8gb of ram. I send a pic of my memory usage.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Open source apps are taking up so much memory because you’re running open source apps.
If you were running proprietary apps, then proprietary apps would be taking up so much memory.