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"Rising cost of memory," Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM (www.windowslatest.com)
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Pavan Davuluri says the rising cost of memory is why Windows 11 will use less RAM, with work on the memory manager, WinUI 3 and WebView2.

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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

WinXP ran quite nicely on 4GB of RAM. You could boot to the desktop in under 5 seconds if you had a solid state drive.

All the day to day tasks someone needs to do with their computers haven't materially changed in the last twenty years since XP held the crown. In that time the speed of processors, storage, gpus, and ram has increased by literal orders of magnitude.

And yet, somehow, things have become much shittier since then.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Because what used to be a native application that used 200 mb of RAM now needs to be a web application built on top of a browser using 4 gb of RAM to do the exact same task.

I will honest to God pick fucking Eclipse over VS Code every single day, because at least it runs natively.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I've been using Geany, was that a bad choice in hindsight?

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

The "enlightened" will tell you to use whatever you're productive with...

...but the real answer is "anything that isn't written in Electron and has no telemetry".

[–] cenzorrll@piefed.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My xp laptop came with 512MB of ram. I'm pretty sure 256MB was typical.

[–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

For real, OP must have been rich. I ran Windows 7 on 1 GB well enough. It got slow eventually but I used it until 2016.

[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Can confirm that worked well into the Win8.1 era.