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…
  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    13 days ago

    [XP] had the lowest RAM usage with nothing loaded at 800 MB versus 3.3 GB for Windows 11 in last place.

    3.3 GB used on an 8 GB system? WTF? I’ve heard people complain about the RAM usage, but that’s obscene.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

      I’m burning 10 of 32GB basically idling. Windows caches ALL the things. If I need those extra gigs, I could still use them.

    • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

      Heavily depends on the edition. I don’t care about 11 so idk if it happens there, but 10 Home has much higher ram usage than LTSC. The lowest I could get on an official iso was 1.6 on a fresh 2019 (i think) ltsc install