[fredoralive]

That’s not particularly unique, Mac OS and Windows have had compressed memory for years. No fiddling with setting needed either.

[antonkochubey]

On windows there is a compensation control in the form of start menu written in react that needs 7 msedgewebview processes to run so that you can search for an app.

[AdamN]

It's not just that it's compressed - the OS is also intelligently handling which memory should be on hardware vs. virtual. Effectively a lot of the memory concerns have been offloaded to the OS and the VM where one exists.

[the-grump]

Isn't that literally every modern OS, always, unless you tell it to act differently?

[creatonez]

> No fiddling with setting needed either.

It's since become the default in several distributions, including Fedora.