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Comment Re:8GB today? Nope, no way. (Score 1) 459

MacOS applications run a rudimentary ancestor of Docker called "containers" or "chroot jails" for almost two decades now, though Apple doesn't call them "containers."

This is where all the dependencies a MacOS app needs (libraries, data, config) are self-contained in one folder.

It was revolutionary at the time. But they're just chroot jails.

Comment Re:Nope, not enough (Score 1) 459

I regularly run VMs with only 4 GB on all the top desktop Linux distributions and it's just fine, even when browsing with Chrome, Firefox, compiling programs, running test benchmarks, etc.

I think most of the folks complaining about 8 GB on their Macbooks are trying to run Photoshop and two different video editors at the same time.

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