For those who find it interesting, enjoy!
I discovered this about 20yrs ago and thereβs been a lot of drugs & drink since then.
I do remember I could open my shit-hot 256Mb RAM desktop with Windows XP taskmanager and it shows a whopping 128Mb free RAM. π
Then Iβd boot into my β733T H4X0rβ Suse Linux 7.3 and top would show 5Mb free RAM. π±
This caused much upset until I found out the two OSβs have (had?) fundamentally different memory utilisation philosophies.
May not be the case anymore but it was late 90s/early 00s.