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Microsoft just deleted Windows 11's 32GB RAM recommendation docs, as prices soar and it rushes to sell 8GB RAM PCs (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Windows doesn't struggle with 16GB at all unless you're doing something that obviously needs as much memory as you can give it, like anything made by Adobe.

For 9/10 users 16GB is plenty, even with common apps that hoard it like it's some sort of hard drug (Chrome).

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

I’m sitting at 22 gigs used with a browser, teams, and an IDE. The browser is taking about 1.6, the IDE as well. Teams is taking 2. Then there’s a bunch of little web views and other BS that windows has spawned gobbling up it all.