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0 pointsvijaybritto6y ago0 comments

I have a suggestion for you that helped me. Try running Android OS like Prime OS (https://primeos.in) in virtual box and you can run those Android apps with low memory usage(I'm assuming that they offer the same experience in Mobile or that you are okay with limited functionality). I set this up for my wife as she kept complaining that her 8 Gb RAM was quickly consumed by Chrome, Slack, Spotify and other apps.

Now the virtual box memory limit is set at 3 GB and she has no complaints. Obviously this is not for power users but it helps a lot when there is a severe shortage in memory

0 pointsvijaybritto6y ago0 comments

Now the virtual box memory limit is set at 3 GB and she has no complaints. Obviously this is not for power users but it helps a lot when there is a severe shortage in memory

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BiteCode_dev6y ago· 3 in thread

I though about it, as a workaround. But realistically:

- my base ram consumption is 2Gb, so it would make 5gb with the VM, giving me 3gb for: firefox, and IDE, thunderbird, telegram, stremio, libreoffice, nautilus, veracrypt, liferea, gnome calendar, keypass, dev tools such as linter/dev servers/formatters, tilix, veracrypt, youtube-dl, jupyter, other VM I use for work... Even if I don't use them all at the same time, that's not a lot real estate. It used to be enough. When I used sublime instead of vscode, didn't have 4 communications apps and so on. You gotta hand it to the electron community: their software do bring good features.

- The ergonomics would be terrible for certain softwares. For chat, it would be alright (no notification is ok with me), but for stuff like dynalist, I need to be productive

- It's slow to use. You can feel the reaction time with every action. Android is slow in itself, but in an emulator, you want chain too many actions

vijaybrittoOP6y ago

That's a lot of functionality! How are you handling it? I expect it to get worse as more and more electron apps keep showing up.

ignoramous6y ago

Well, would a shared electron runtime make things better [0]?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22774088

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BiteCode_dev6y ago

> How are you handling it?

What do you mean?

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