[Isthatablackgsd]

Apple is well known for their extremely optimized software due to their tight integration with hardware and software. This would make sense to keep it 8GB for Apple-only software idealistically. Realistically, those modern software are not optimized for any OS. I had MBA M1 4GB, it wasn't enough. I imagine macOS put memory compression to constant heavy use and swap.

[rowanG077]

Asahi linux proved that's not the case. Comparing compile times on OSX vs Asahi linux shows that Asahi linux was a ton faster.