Comment by sestep

Ohh you're right thanks, I mixed up which part of the post you were talking about; sorry for getting confused.

Yes, I agree that it doesn't make sense for that to be due to the OS. That's just poor writing on my part: in that case I wasn't actually trying to imply that it was due to the operating system specifically, I was just using "Linux" and "the MacBook" as shorthand to refer to my two different computers, which differ in more ways than just the OS. In this case, another commenter suggested it might be due to my physical setup of having three RAM sticks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397214

So yes, in that sentence I should have written "on my desktop" instead of just "on Linux".