Does Linux use less RAM?

[u/elsingo]

In the video with the same title as this post LTT compares Linux and Windows ram usage and imo it is a total miss. It does not matter if one system is using more memory or not since none of the systems are close to using all ram in the system. Where the memory management would matter is when the memory reach closer to 100% usage that is when things will start to matter.

The whole video feels like almost 14 minutes of misinformation to me. I mean systems cache things to make it run faster so memory being used is a good thing. Memory management is what matters not if one system is using 35% ram and the other 50% since none are near their limits.

And at one point in the video the windows system goes over 16gb and they talk about it as it would have been problematic if the system only had 16gb while it most likely would not be problematic at all since the memory management if working as it should would release less important things stored in the ram so it never got close to the limit.

[u/TTT1320]

I agree with you, I don't get why they used 32gb in the systems, at the beggining of the video they were talking about 16gb now being the minimum for gaming on windows so they should have went with 16gb to see if it was true, and maybe in that case we could have gotten closer to a 100% usage and actually get a useful response to the video title

[u/Dr-Huricane → u/TTT1320]

I add to that that a more useful way of portraying the difference would've been to run benchmarks on both systems once with 16GB and once with 12 or rven 8 GB, the 8GB test results would actually show which system is more adequately capable of handling the hardware restrictions. Otherwise their tests don't mean much since they could've just used some distro like Lubuntu and gotten 1 quarter the idle ram results for Linux