https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500412
--- Comment #11 from John <ilikef...@waterisgone.com> --- (In reply to TraceyC from comment #5) > After some discussion, an avenue we can pursue is to show an informational > tooltip that would explain that the hardware is reserving some amount of > space Since many users either use Windows too on other computers, the same with dual-boot or are coming from there and they already seen the parentheses after value + unit, so the "(x.xx GB usable)", I think a lot of users already know that not all memory remain to be usable by the OS and whatever programs run on it. And since most of the Linux users are pretty tech-savvy we can also assume that they know this fact. But to cover all bases, for users that didn't use Windows or other OS like youngsters or they didn't pay the attention before some kind of information about some memory being reserved is good to have. Though to not annoy people who already know this the tooltip seems the best idea to me. This is still the summary page and more info can be seen on the dedicated Memory page. As for the Memory usage by the OS, there are additional tools available one in Plasma itself: System Monitor, which is also the second page after the summary page (About This System). And for other tech / Linux-savvy people there is also Mission Center: https://missioncenter.io/ That has a great memory page. Or Hardinfo 2 https://github.com/hardinfo2/hardinfo2 That shows in addition to the physical total one, how much it's available to the Linux OS. In my opinion the toolthip could show a message like: Some of it is reserved by the hardware Or: Some of it is reserved by the firmware (UEFI / BIOS) Or, similar to Hardinfo 2 and Windows, with calculation: 7.7 available to Linux 7.7 usable But here, since it has more chances to not be integer than the total phicical one, I wish the precision would be one digit higher So instead of showing 7.7 available (or usable), if it's not exactly 7.70, then it would be nice to have 2 digits after the floating point, like in Windows: https://i.imgur.com/gXfqa9f.png I'm one of the persons that sometimes take numbers and put them in Krunner or DDG to substract them from others or to convert them to other units, so if I want to now how much exactly is reserved, it would be better to have the second digit after the floating point too. Windows does it for when the second digit is zero too: https://www.javelin-tech.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/find-computer-name.png Maybe for consistency with the total physical memory, but I would not care to see the zero in this case too. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
