Summary

  • Windows 11 Weather app hogs about 1.2GB RAM and spawns multiple Chromium processes.
  • App displays ads because it wraps MSN weather in a WebView2/browser shell.
  • Native macOS Weather uses ~247MB with no ads; Microsoft should port to WinUI 3.
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[–] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And yet my script to fetch from an API and display in my bar uses no more than a few megabytes with the bar included...

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    And even that would be considered absurd by yesterday's standards. The entire game ROM for Super Mario Bros on NES is 40KB.

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