big guns for little shooters

[fuscia]

this is for those of us who consider ourselves psychotic-minimalists (like, i flip out whenever i go above 200mbs of memory usage, even though i have a gig. <---doofus!). even so, there are apps i'll use, that are monstrous, and i'll use them just because i need it done the way i want it done, without worrying.

gimp will always be what i use for image editing

k3b has never made me a coaster that wasn't my fault

firefox just does everything (otherwise, i've been using elinks)

thunar does what i need once i realize that i don't really know what i'm doing with cli file management.

[Josh1]

this is for those of us who consider ourselves psychotic-minimalists (like, i flip out whenever i go above 200mbs of memory usage, even though i have a gig. <---doofus!). even so, there are apps i'll use, that are monstrous, and i'll use them just because i need it done the way i want it done, without worrying.

gimp will always be what i use for image editing

k3b has never made me a coaster that wasn't my fault

firefox just does everything (otherwise, i've been using elinks)

thunar does what i need once i realize that i don't really know what i'm doing with cli file management.

I have the same feeling toward RAM usage as you. You might be happy to know that when I compared firefox3 (beta) to 2, there was a great difference in RAM usage.

I don't use GIMP, I dislike it but I don't do image editing at all so no loss for me.

K3b... I love this software as well. So damn nice to use.

thunar, no idea what that is.

[new2*buntu]

thunar, no idea what that is.

Thunar is the default XFCE file manager.

[happysmileman]

Right now I have 9MB of RAM free and I'm not going into swap so that's good enough for me, I'm actually a little surprised when I see I'm only using 500MB

[funrider]

firefox still hung on my 8GB machine. I am a little bit disappointed.

[Tundro Walker]

I got 1gb, too, and also trimmed back a lot of fluff to minimize it.

Firefox is ok, but it freezes up a little when opening some pages. I noticed it's usually pages getting traffic stats using Google-Analytics, though, so Google's servers are probably slowing things down (they're like the hub of the world now it seems). And if I'm using it for a while, it'll just freeze sometimes, forcing me to shut it down. I'm not sure what causes that. Hasn't happened as much since Gutsy.

I've been thinking of going back to Xubuntu / XFCE, because Gnome has a lot of "high mem" objects ... panels, applets, etc. I mean, the weather applet, which I like, uses ~4mb itself. I don't really use much, so not sure why I don't switch ...

So all the RAM freed up, and I've got folding running high-mem processes...and that only uses up 100mb. It's kind of a waste. I'm telling you, other than for gaming or video/graphics editing, 5 year old computers have all the power and mem modern users still need. If they could just cram all this into a wrist-watch, I'd do away with my desktop computer.

[corney91]

Yeah, I prefer minimalism. But instead of RAM usage, I judge it by the feel of it, if that makes sense.
The main one that feels 'big', that I use, is Opera because of all it's features
Other than that, GNOME+Compiz which I'm using until I figure out Awesome.
I do have GIMP installed but never use it, nor do I need it.

[fuscia]

I noticed it's usually pages getting traffic stats using Google-Analytics

if you use the noscript extension, you can disallow google-analytics.

[fatality_uk]

firefox still hung on my 8GB machine. I am a little bit disappointed.

Woah 8G. I thought I was bad with 4GB

[new2*buntu]

I have only 512 MB of RAM. Typically, when I boot up into Linux Mint XFCE it uses around 180 MB, and Kubuntu uses about 190. When I am using Firefox, it generally brings it up to 215~230 and Firefox + Exaile/Amarok means 240~250. I hate it when it goes over 250 though. I know I should use Konquerer for web browsing on KDE but I just like Firefox, and since I use one of the crystal themes it makes Firefox look like a KDE app.