I feel like a lot of this is that Macs come built in with very fast SSDs (although App Nap, when implemented by apps, is one of the best low-RAM features to ever exist)
replyIt's definitely the software. My M1 Pro macbook running Fedora behaves very poorly under memory pressure.
replyWin 11 is actually way better at memory management than Windows 10. It's just more bloated.
replyThat's only true for M Macs. Intel Macs with 8 GB of RAM perform pretty poorly.
replyMy Intel Mac Mini with 8GB of RAM has always seemed fine on the rare occasions I use it.
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