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Windows 11's Weather app uses 5x the RAM of macOS Weather (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] eurodyne@piefed.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And anything more than tens of megabytes for an icon on the taskbar is bloatware. It's not like pulling this data is hard.

I agree. On macOS, the Weather app doesn’t run in the background. It’s a full desktop app. Desktop/sidebar weather widgets run in the background, but they only take about 25 MB total.

If you’re telling me that even the taskbar Weather app in Windows 11 takes almost a a gigabyte of RAM (or more??), that’s goddamn bananas.