On #Debian 11, the whole system along with #XFce was taking 500 MB of RAM. On Debian 12, the system takes 850 MB of RAM. On Trixie/Sid-unstable, it takes 1.3 GB. I honestly don't know what they're shoving in it.
With #Cinnamon and #Gnome, it takes 1.6 GB on idle. Since when Cinnamon, a gnome2/gtk3 fork takes (or should take) as much RAM as Gnome4/gtk4? Something's amiss.
@eugenialoli With kernel caching etc. (i.e. "unused RAM is wasted RAM"), is it still meaningful to compare total RAM usage across DEs, vs analyzing individual RAM usage of components/applications to look for a more specific anomaly?
But even then, my observation in the past few years is that the more RAM you have available in a system, the more it tends to use it anyway.
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