Comment by thereforegrin

and killing programs and/or freezing the OS is somehow more efficient? By what metric? Certainly not by any UX or productivity one.

I've moved to Linux from Windows some years ago but the first thing that shocked me was precisely the abysmal performance around low memory availability.

Got my system stabilized eventually by means of some magical incantations but this wasn't a pleasant experience and I wouldn't want to repeat it.

It's beyond me how come Linux is so decrepid in this particular area compared to Windows.