Ask HN: Why is the hunger for RAM never satisfied?
I agree with &quot;not_your_vase&quot; says, but also people want fancy, look at GNOME, KDE, Windows and MACs.<p>I use fvwm and it is far from fancy, but it gets the job done and is quite efficient.<p>Proprietary software Companies discovered early on eye-candy sells, and many people in the Linux Land is following what Apple and Windows developers do because most people want a similar fancy look.<p>In many cases PCs and Laptops are more of an entertainment device as opposed to a data processing device, that means Browsers are getting lots functionality for that use-case, and that is not cheap.<p>I had hoped the move of the masses to Cell Phones and Tablets would stop this trend, but seems it only to have accelerated it.<p>Now a &quot;rant&quot;<p>On the Linux side, Wayland is a big concern for me because I may be forced into using software that has a lot of functionality I do <i>not</i> need, stealing RAM from processing&#x2F;analyzing large sets of data that could use gigs of RAM.<p>Right now my distro of choice still easily allows me to avoid that bloat, but the Wayland move may force it to follow to use something Red Hat created that to me is way to complex and is overkill.<p>Luckily OpenBSD and NetBSD (on a BSD now) is trying to avoid that mess, but Wayland may force changes I believe neither of these systems wants.  Adding the bloat these systems have been able to avoid.  Already dbus is needed for Firefox&#x2F;chrome...  What else will they be forced to port.