One thing I observe in the latest OS update (Ventura) is that they made HUGE improvements in memory management (MacBook M1, 8 GB).
Before, Firefox would bring the laptop to a crawl with ~200 tabs (Yeah, I know).
Having PHPStorm open at the same time was a sure machine killer.
Just today I found myself casually with close to 350 tabs, while at the same time working in PHPStorm with no issues.
In my experience (My previous box was a Thinkpad T430 with 16 GB of RAM running Debian) linux is far from this good handling memory.
Also, the state management in MacOS is equal to no one.
I have a Lenovo Thinkbook 15 (I7), and having to wait for it to restart when I open the lid is excruciating. I should put a "This is my pos laptop" on it.
Before, Firefox would bring the laptop to a crawl with ~200 tabs (Yeah, I know). Having PHPStorm open at the same time was a sure machine killer.
Just today I found myself casually with close to 350 tabs, while at the same time working in PHPStorm with no issues.
In my experience (My previous box was a Thinkpad T430 with 16 GB of RAM running Debian) linux is far from this good handling memory.
Also, the state management in MacOS is equal to no one. I have a Lenovo Thinkbook 15 (I7), and having to wait for it to restart when I open the lid is excruciating. I should put a "This is my pos laptop" on it.