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0 pointshansvm5y ago0 comments

Plenty of people only have 2-4GB of RAM, and Slack eating up 360MB along with a couple other bloated apps and some God-foresaken autoplaying video ad can easily start requiring swapping and slow a computer to a crawl.

Sure, people could spend more money to mostly sidestep the issue (supposing they didn't have any workloads which actually benefited from all available RAM), but that doesn't make it a non-issue.

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coding1235y ago

I'm guessing you're not going to run Slack unless you're at a company. And I'm guessing if you have 2-4GB of RAM you are not running a company issued computer. And if for some odd-ass reason you are running on a personal computer with 2-4 GB of RAM and NEED slack, why not just run it in a chrome tab?

MaxBarraclough5y ago

It will use about the same amount of memory when run in a Chrome tab, as that doesn't much differ from the application version (essentially just a bundled Chromium browser). It would save you from running two different Chromium browsers at once, but I don't think the saving is all that significant. (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25167153 )

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0 pointshansvm5y ago0 comments

Sure, people could spend more money to mostly sidestep the issue (supposing they didn't have any workloads which actually benefited from all available RAM), but that doesn't make it a non-issue.

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coding1235y ago

MaxBarraclough5y ago

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