After running the "free" command on my terminal, I can clearly see that it is not being used at all, here is how it looks;
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total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 8050572 1131908 3723464 75620 3195200 6534428
Swap: 8388604 0 8388604
Alright thank you for the information about the swap being used.
EDIT 2:
Here is for the terminal issue I'm having after running the command
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inxi -Fxz
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System: Host: thomasLinux Kernel: 4.15.0-42-generic x86_64
bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu1)
Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine: Device: laptop System: HP product: HP Pavilion Power Laptop 15-cb0xx v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: N/A
Mobo: HP model: 836B v: 46.24 serial: N/A
UEFI: Insyde v: F.16 date: 06/22/2018
Battery BAT0: charge: 64.1 Wh 100.0% condition: 64.1/64.1 Wh (100%)
model: HP Primary status: Full
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-7700HQ (-MT-MCP-)
arch: Skylake rev.9 cache: 6144 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 22464
clock speeds: max: 3800 MHz 1: 1602 MHz 2: 3207 MHz 3: 2994 MHz
4: 3303 MHz 5: 3541 MHz 6: 3116 MHz 7: 3114 MHz 8: 3225 MHz
Graphics: Card-1: Intel Device 591b bus-ID: 00:02.0
Card-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
drivers: modesetting,nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.02hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2
version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.77 Direct Render: Yes
Audio: Card Intel CM238 HD Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-42-generic
Network: Card-1: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi bus-ID: 04:00.0
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCIE Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 3000 bus-ID: 05:00.0
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (10.0% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST1000LM049 size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 278G used: 94G (36%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 0.0:56C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 240 Uptime: 43 min Memory: 2750.5/7861.9MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191) inxi: 2.3.56