I have macbook air with M1 chip, I wish I could change to linux but unfortunately I cant so I try to stick as much as possible to using open source on macos. But i cant understand why FOSS apps take up so much space in memory. I’m even getting messages that says that I dont have space left in memory and i must close apps, and I thought that chip M1 was enough with 8gb of ram. I send a pic of my memory usage.

  • anguo@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    This is what I’d wager. I remember reading that apps using Rosetta (is that what it’s called ?) take up more resources.