As a normal, boring user that does nothing special other than browse the internet and the occasional "casual coding" -- what am I supposed to do with 32GiB of ram?
Title. Besides setting tmpfs to use 10GiB of it to store downloads.
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After boot, I'm using 2GB. I haven't noticed Linux doing the ram-hog thing like Windows at all. But Firefox is currently using 8GB.
Just restarted Firefox and it's using 2.5GB now. I think it stores a lot in ram from video.
unused RAM is wasted RAM
Average web developer principle
A program that can run on 1GB but uses 2GB is more wasteful, OS and FS level caching and memory reclamation only work if the memory is available, and a program wasting it takes it from everything else, unused RAM is wasted, but so is RAM being used for no actual function.
Not to say programs cant use large amounts, but they should provide a level of functionality for the amount of memory used, and some programs of late have been more than a bit inefficient, in short, filling the RAM is good, but do make sure its actually being used.
That means you should waste and occupy as much as possible? Lol.
I think less of anyone who treats 'sayings' like that as absolute fact. Small minds.
How? After booting(and starting DE) I'm using about 700 megs.
My DE is Gnome which uses a bit. Haven't really looked into it further, because I still have 62GB of ram free after startx. Haven't maxed it out yet.