<![CDATA[5GB memory usage idle]]>**NOTE: i have only used linux for about a year or so and im not a power user, im basically a tired windows user but i know more stuff than most beginners i feel like? like not a lot more but a little bit
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so when i don't have anything open my memory usage is like 4-5GB out of 16, which makes it pretty bad when i want to play games (even minecraft can make it so my pc use 99% memory so i have to hard reset, although i might have fixed that) and/or when i want some demanding theming things (like a live wallpaper). "Background services" is using like 4GB and "baloo_file_extractor" is using like 1GB out of the 4. I have done a tiny tiny bit of research and ive found out that baloo is a file indexing thingo, but idrk what file indexing is used for so i don't know if i should disable it

distro: endeavourOS
de: kde plasma wayland
ram: 16gb of something (i have a prebuilt so idk what ddr it is or whatever)

if you need more info then please say so (i can't show images for some reason)

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