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inatreecrown2 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

Running Alpine Linux with a minimal window manager gives me similar RAM usage, about 150MB

sunshine-o 6 months ago [–]

This is quite good !

My Alpine Desktop (Root on ZFS, Wayland/Sway) starts with about 550MB

lproven 6 months ago | [–]

Ye gods, that's a lot. I run Xfce on Alpine on plain old ext4 and get 200MB or so used.

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