2026-10-04 19:52 UTC
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@nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-10-05 03:39
techemails.com/…/bill-gates-tries-to-install-movi… This was in my feed today. 23 years old. Nothing improved. But sure, windows will use less ram 😹
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@senko@ani.social 2026-10-05 03:47
8GB of RAM: the gift that keeps on giving. In 2005, you were basically running a supercomputer. By 2015, you were… still doing fine, honestly. Fast forward to 2025 and your machine is wheezing like it just climbed five flights of stairs while Chrome is open. But wait—2026 rolls around and suddenly 8GB is back to being acceptable again because everyone finally realized Electron apps were a mistake and went back to native development. Just kidding, we’re all doomed. Your IDE alone needs 12GB now.
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@aesthelete@lemmy.world 2026-10-05 03:52
dude, windows uses paging even if it has a free bank of memory to use…i’ve seen it with my own eyes…it’s a complete trash OS…swaps like nobody’s business
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@mHtt@lemmy.ca 2026-10-04 20:20
i got my windows install down to 0 RAM by using Linux.
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@some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-10-05 04:50
Was it because Win11 had a bunch of slopcoded Copilot bs? Inquiring minds want to know.
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@ekZepp@lemmy.world 2026-10-05 04:53
Ah, my mistake, i missread. It “will” use less memory (like maybe one day).
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@lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2026-10-05 04:57
Some devs in the big corpos got spoiled with so much memory, with feature creep they managed to bloat up once reliable programs. In 1994 and when I began compsci, I remember how memory and bandwidth conservation was then taken so seriously, where performance was a high consideration over eyecandy. That I once got hold of Creating Killer Websites (yeah, that book), which included a section on how to slim down images to make them download faster, as at the time nearly everyone were on dialup. Videogames were then equally small, they were mostly sprite-based and were easily fit into a CDROM, as other games had basic vector graphics and low-resolution texturing.
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@WesternInfidels@feddit.online 2026-10-05 01:48
My Windows 2000 machine had 512MB of RAM. With it I could browse the web, run full-featured word processors, scan images, edit images, play 3D games, edit / compile / debug C and C++ programs, and so on. If memory serves, my office machine about that time only had 128MB of RAM. It was slower, but it could do just about all of that stuff, too. I’m not sure there are any broad categories of tasks I use computers for today that I wasn’t already using my Windows 2000 machine for back in 2001 or so. It’s hard to fathom where all the RAM in modern systems goes. A million somethings is a lot. A million bytes is a huge amount of information. War And Peace is under four million characters.
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@siravious@lemmy.world 2026-10-05 10:39
Great now remove the motherfucking tracking ID
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@FireWire400@lemmy.world 2026-10-05 09:58
I recently had to configure an older Thinkpad X1 Carbon G8 for my little brother. It’s only got 8GB of RAM unfortunately and he needs Windows. So I installed Windows 11 IoT LTSC like I usually do, installed all necessary drivers and manually deactivated services that don’t need to run. It still uses 3GB of RAM while idling. My 2-year-old daily driver Manjaro install uses half of that, and that’s on a system with 32GB RAM where Windows would almost certainly use more just because there’s more
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@Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 20:47
I’ll believe it when I see it. I mean, Windows has a lot of auto-loading bloatware that Microsoft could cut, but I really doubt they’ll actually have the balls to cut any of it.
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@skujcici7755@lemmy.zip 2026-10-10 05:20
You gotta wonder who’s spreading this constant meme about Windows 11. I suspect they have hard coded backdoors into linux