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And I cannot install more than 4 Gb (thanks to Intel for planned obsolence) and have to use several Electron-based programs (each takes not less than 500 Mb). When there is not enough memory, the system can freeze to the point that I cannot even move a mouse pointer.

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> have to use several Electron-based programs

Have you thought about running browser-based versions? I tend to find that these behave a lot better.

Maybe I will try it, but in my case I run them isolated under another user account so it means that I will have to run several instances of a browser (but I'll try to compare the memory usage). Because I don't want them to install cookies and track me across the Internet.

Firefox Containers is a great way of doing this without having to run separate browsers

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Also incidentally electron apps afaik don't install cookies on your main browser, they should be separate anyway

How do you manage with only 512 MB RAM?

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