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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 15:39:54 -0400
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On 3/23/25 14:13, Joel wrote:
> -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>> Take a look at my Cinnamon taskbar:  https://i.imgur.com/yPGDm6a.png
>>>>
>>>> Um...yeah, so?   That you have ~25 Apps on your machine's Dock doesn't
>>>> mean that you have 25 Apps running concurrently.
>>>
>>> They are running, dude.  I'm an Internet presence.  Deal with it.
>>
>> Sorry, don't buy it.  Show the RAM processes usage page, not the Dock,
>> for that claim.
>>
>> Similarly, even if it was true, to go identify just what the workflow is
>> which actually needs to have 20+ diverse apps running concurrently.
> 
> 
> Do the math.

I have.  That's precisely why I'm asking for what possible workflow 
could require so many concurrent open Apps for one human to allegedly be 
rapidly swapping between.

Workflows are subject to the Laws of Diminishing Returns.  For any 
modern system with fast storage (eg, NVMe), the pretense of a 
productivity gains from leaving Apps resident in RAM has functionally 
ended for the Pareto Principle 80% portion.

-hh