And I don’t mean just Google’s Android. Every single iteration. With their stupid memory management for PoWeR sAvInG.
I was typing up a rant on how incredibly boring and stupid Disclosure Day was when I just quickly switched to Firefox to look up a character’s name when Android decided that I was done using my Lemmy client and just outright killed it without even giving it enough time to save my comment to drafts, like it usually does.
You can never be sure when you leave an app whether it will continue doing what it’s supposed to or if it will be frozen or killed.
I’ve got 4 GB of RAM and multiple CPU cores. That should be enough to run a dozen apps in parallel. My frickin N900 with 128 MB had better multitasking than a modern Android smartphone!
In which world is 4GB enough to multitask a web browser under any OS?
You’re right. I remember even my Win98 machine had to have 16GB of RAM or couldn’t get anything done.
Try to get a modern web browser working on your Win98 machine. The problem is modern web browsers eating RAM, not Android.
Found the Chromium dev!
But seriously, I’ve got an old laptop still in use and that’s getting along fine on 4 GB. Firefox, KDE, Libre Office, background tasks, some light gaming, no problem.
Usually good programs only take lots of memory when it’s available.
Let me guess: That old laptop has a swap file or partition?
If you dislike Android so much, get https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-october-2026 Should pair well with your new >1000 Euro Steam Machine.
I would definitely buy a Jolla Phone or it would work in the US.
It should work there. The problem for you would be no direct shipping to the US.