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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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[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

I've ran Puppy Linux off a 8gb flash drive on a system w/ 2 gigs of ram. It was by no means good, but it worked good enough.

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