On 11/5/2011 5:58 PM, Jason Hsu cried from the depths of the abyss: > > In my cynical opinion, I think this is no accident. The most > lightweight distros WANT you to see how much RAM is in use. antiX > Linux looks good when it shows that it's only using something like 40 > MB at idle. The heavyweight distros don't want you to see how much > RAM is in use because it would make them look grossly inefficient. > It doesn't look good if the OS needs 500 MB of RAM just to idle and > 2+ GB of RAM to do actual work. > They are not being cynical. Let's be real here. 8G of RAM (DDR3) costs about $40.00 these days pretty much anywhere for desktop use. Based on this, who cares how much ram is being consumed during idle for a desktop. If it's not enough, $40.00 more will get you up to 16Gigs. What you call Heavy Weight/bloated I call normal.