@WashedOutGundamPilot @birdulon @a1ba what macOS users always say (and so does apple) is to care about memory pressure, not the raw numbers.

I doubt you could be able to do the same stuff with a 16GB machine, but people say that you can comfortably use swap with an apple silicon mac and the machine doesnt break a sweat.

I have an x86 linux laptop, with 12GB of ram and 24GB of zram as swap (tldr, compressed memory, ratio of 4-5:1) and it can run quite a lot of stuff. I don't have to worry about memory usage most of the time. The linux kernel still does need more work to make it better suit interactive/responsive (aka laptops, desktops)