c/pcmasterrace · by sanitation@lemmy.today · 33d

Microsoft vows to make Windows 11 fly on 8GB RAM amid memory shortage — optimizations to reduce OS memory footprint have begun

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-vows-to-make-windows-11-fly-on-8gb-ram-amid-memory-shortage-optimizations-to-reduce-os-memory-footprint-have-begun

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juipeltje@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 33d (2 replies)

Even if they actually pull it off, shouldn't we want to optimize regardless of any shortages?

trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 33d

For the end users, yeah, it would be a fairly high priority. But Microsoft doesn't have to pay for your hardware, so unless it's genuinely a problem that loses them lots of customers, they don't care.

tal@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 33d

Well, optimization takes dev time. You can use dev time for other things too --- debugging, improving performance on systems with enough memory, adding features, improving security. Or not use the dev time and cost less. So it's a tradeoff.

redlemace@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 33d (1 reply)

Linux:


               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            13Gi       2.5Gi         9Gi       816Mi       2.2Gi        11Gi
Swap:          4.0Gi          0B       4.0Gi

undrwater@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d

This didn't format well when phone was portrait, but looked ok when landscape.

BurgerBaron@quokk.au · 7 pts · 33d

They've done a lot of vowing and promising and announcing future changes lately.

How about shut up, Microsoft, and let the changelogs speak for themselves?

Akasazh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 33d

Bit late

fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 33d

Windows 11 going to just Linux based soon huh?

dawcas@scribe.disroot.org · 1 pts · 32d

SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz · -4 pts · 33d

Yay! now we just need to rid the world of the gamer bros and nature will heal itself.