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Chrome. Slack. VSCode.

The proliferation of desktop software that are just more Chrome processes in disguise has been punishing on memory usage.

My work machine used to fully lockup on a daily basis with 16 GB of RAM. 32 GB seems to be the sweet spot right now.



> Chrome. Slack. VSCode.

VMs, especially since you need one to run docker on OSX, IntelliJ, Firefox, ...


People claim if you switch off to Safari the memory footprint goes down. Of course, if you're an FE dev, that comes with more ... challenging ... dev tools. YMMV.


I run Slack as a tab in Safari because it avoids the pain of running the electron app, and reduces my memory footprint.




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