Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today’s Windows experience doesn’t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s when XP and later Windows 7 ruled the roost. To quantify this f…
measuring the ram usage on a blank desktop isn’t really a “benchmark” and doesn’t say anything about the OS itself
Benchmark: noun
a standard or point of reference against which things may be compared.
And frankly, whatever memory the OS hogs is less memory for applications to hog.
My laptop is 14 years old with a lightweight modern Linux distro. The “OS” - kernel, desktop environment , and system tray apps, a few widgets - uses 800MB of ram when it’s parked at the desktop after startup. Which means the other 15.2GB is available to my applications, and it makes my wheezy old laptop perfectly functional for most things.
Benchmark: noun
And frankly, whatever memory the OS hogs is less memory for applications to hog.
My laptop is 14 years old with a lightweight modern Linux distro. The “OS” - kernel, desktop environment , and system tray apps, a few widgets - uses 800MB of ram when it’s parked at the desktop after startup. Which means the other 15.2GB is available to my applications, and it makes my wheezy old laptop perfectly functional for most things.
My old laptop got an update on Linux and it got faster.