>Windows 98 can run like a top with 256mb of RAM >Modern

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>>61323635
Telemetry, graphics, background processes, etc.

>Linux bud

A combination of additional services, keeping frequently used application assets in memory and visual rice.

Oh and botnet. /g/ wouldn't let me get away without mentioning telemetry.

>Modern operating systems use upwards of 4GB of RAM while idle
no they don't, Windows 10 uses 4GB of ram - Windows isn't the sole OS in the world

>>61323635

You can get Vista and XP64 to like 300-400mb used with some Xlite shenanigans.

>>61323635
My Win 10 installation uses 2GB while idle. Also I'm pretty sure Windows will reserve more memory based on how much you have available, so it's not exactly an accurate measure of used memory.

>>61323635
>256mb
>not 16mb

>muh telemetry
>muh bluetooth
>muh wireless adaptors
>muh cores
>muh power management
>muh listening devices
>muh backdoor
Computing was more fun in 1997

>>61323635
4gb at idle? Not likely.

>>61323635
>>Modern operating systems use upwards of 4GB of RAM while idle
My installation of Win10 pro uses 2.7 GB on startup, with 8 GB of total memory.

>>61323704
>My Win 10 installation uses 2GB while idle. Also I'm pretty sure Windows will reserve more memory based on how much you have available, so it's not exactly an accurate measure of used memory.

This. If you have the memory, Windows will use it for performance. RAM is faster than your hard drive. I'll eventually rig up a Windows 10 machine that can run 98 somehow and try some performance tests.

>>61323635
bitch whaat, i ran 98se for 2 years on 64mb of ram before upgrading to 192mb

>>61323741
Well that's a lot

>>61323664
ubuntu and win10 both use about 2,6GB RAM during regular use on my machines.

>>61323867
ubuntu a shit

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>>61323660
Came here to read a Telemetry comment and I found one. Bravo.

install chrome

>>61323635
A lot of things can be done faster when you use more memory.
An OS does so many things now it is hard to pinpoint why it uses so much memory and since it is proprietary it doesn't matter as you can't fix it even if you had the time and the skills.
With Linux, you can diff the source, you can make changes and you can even use the old version if you want.
Every line of code can be traced back to the person who wrote it

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>>61323635
MS-DOS works on even less, but it's so bare bones, that programmers needed to get to the hardware directly to make anything work.

Same with 98. Writing software for 98 was painful. Now it's as easy as anal masturbation (which I highly recommend by the way), because of all the frameworks.

ChromeOS runs great with 4GB.

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>what is caching