I have macbook air with M1 chip, I wish I could change to linux but unfortunately I cant so I try to stick as much as possible to using open source on macos. But i cant understand why FOSS apps take up so much space in memory. I’m even getting messages that says that I dont have space left in memory and i must close apps, and I thought that chip M1 was enough with 8gb of ram. I send a pic of my memory usage.

  • hackeryarn@lemmy.world
    14·
    11 months ago

    My first guess would be emulation for apps that do not run on aarm by default.

    A lot of OSS devs don’t want to spend time supporting a closed architecture. Especially some of the more privacy and openness focused apps that you’re running.

    • anguo@lemmy.ca
      6·
      11 months ago

      This is what I’d wager. I remember reading that apps using Rosetta (is that what it’s called ?) take up more resources.