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.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Huh. It’d be interesting to see how much memory LibreOffice or some such takes on a Linux system.

    I’d test myself, but I’m currently on a Raspberry Pi and my beefy box is a) off and b) all the way over there.

  • hackeryarn@lemmy.world
    41·
    1 year ago

    My first guess would be emulation for apps that do not run on aarm by default.

    A lot of OSS devs don’t want to spend time supporting a closed architecture. Especially some of the more privacy and openness focused apps that you’re running.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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.

  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    My guess is not optimized or not optimized for your OS. Plus there may be an extra layer to make it compatible that may be resource hungry. That being said, I’ve seen my fair share of resource hungry paid and closed apps too.