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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Still find it funny that windows half hides the cached data use so people dont complain about there ram being full only to get people confused why it's not full.

When I say half hide, they just use a thin line and not a clear colour to show cached ram use.
gpt
I don't think the confusion necessarily comes from the cached memory bar not being visually distinguished enough from the free memory bar, but rather from the fact that not everyone understands the basics of memory management.

Personally I am fine with both bars being the same color because technically, the portion of RAM used as a cache is pretty much "equal" to free RAM, since it can be evicted and used whenever a program needs to allocate memory for its own code/data.

Vast majority of people don't (and shouldn't) really care whether some part of free RAM is used for caching or not. Realistically you only need to care about the amount/percentage of the used/available RAM anyways. (available=free+cached)