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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
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Subject: Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 16:02:16 -0400
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On 3/23/25 15:52, 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.
> 
> 
> My "workflow" is just revolving through different apps for various
> functions.

Since you don't really know what your workflow needs are, your 
productivity for doing it isn't a factor for you.

Get a PC with 8GB RAM .. it will suffice.


And make sure to run a pretty screen saver, since that's as much 
value-added as all of the rest of the things that you're pretending to do.


-hh