I haven't bothered to read the article yet, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume they want our PCs to be so overpowered in order to better run their AI bullshit. Gonna turn us into a distributed datacentre or something.

They want it for copilot, games dont need 32 gigs of ram

For modern AAA games I'd say that's pretty accurate of a recommendation despite the costs associated with ram. Ideally games should be optimized to run on 8Gb but windows and other software is probably going to happily eat up a few gigs.

I run 64gb just cuz I have it sitting around haha. That said, I immediately booted down my win11 machine and swapped to Linux after reading that. It’s just their brazen ways of conducting business that has pushed me away as a consumer of their products. Anyone wanna buy a win11 pro license? I’m done with it. I’m just done with microslop. I’ll still use MS products at my work (I’m in IT so there’s no escaping!) but if given a choice I will always steer away from them. It sucks too because I grew up using windows/microsoft and always backed them. Nowadays I just can’t…

With Linux I can run all those apps that the article say plus whatever I'm playing and hardly enough I get close to 12 or 15 gb of ram.

I have 32GiB and greatly regret not upgrading when it was cheap

Meanwhile I'm just out here vibing to some good old Fallout New Vegas

Not really sure why there was outrage for this. 16GB has been seen as the minimum going back to COVID times? (If I recall correctly?) 32GB is a reasonable amount to recommend if they expect a user will also be running a browser and discord while gaming.

The windows 11 team at Microsoft isn't responsible for the realities of modern software. The community bulling them into pretending that 32GB isn't a good recommendation these days doesn't actually help anything

I have 32gb of ram and tbh most of it is wasted