But then, you don't usually run into memory pressure with 8 GB and Linux unless you do a few specific things (for me with 32-128 GB depending on machine it's C++ builds using all cores and of course local LLMs). I guess a bunch of Electron apps would also do it for 8 GB.

> you don't usually run into memory pressure with 8 GB and Linux unless you do a few specific things

Like using Chrome…

Use Firefox then