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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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[–] 52 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Bullshit, Windows 11 uses more ram than any other OS I know of. It idles an entire gigabyte higher than Windows 10, it's still worse than MacOS although close, and it's nowhere close to Linux Gnome, Headless, or even KDE Plasma.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Yes, Windows 11 uses a lot of memory now. The point is that they're working on making it use less.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Yes I understood that but I am arguing against the implication they made when they chose this specific language and connotation, so I am insinuating that it will still use more than every other OS unless they gutt all the adware and spyware.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    Unused ram is wasted ram.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago*

    “unused ram is wasted ram” is only valid when that memory is buffer/cache. Except the windows UI isn’t allocating excessive buffers or cache that can be freed under memory pressure or when an application needs it. It’s allocating actual memory pages for the JS rendering engine and other bloated vibecoded services.

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