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If you want to get the most of your hardware, Windows 11 is not the way.
I have a Windows 11 IoT LTSC installed in a VM on my machine with 4 GB assigned. It just has to run iTunes, Firefox with nothing open and otherwise idle.
It was unusable/buggy as hell when I disabled swap so 4 GB + a couple gigs of swaps in my experience is the absolute bare minimum.
Really depends on what you’re trying to do. Done a few budget builds for folks who were attached to Windows but don’t multitask.
Someone who keeps their activities limited to one browser tab and one document/spreadsheet can get by just fine on 8GB.
Might seem very restrictive to most of us, especially here on Lemmy, but there are people who live their lives just like this.
Also, bit cheeky of Microsoft to do this right as they’re introducing new Surfaces with 8GB at what used to be the 16GB model’s price point, lol.
It could run on 8GB of RAM but that would require trimming out a lot of the shareholder-mandated bloat
Switch to another OS and 256mb of ram is enough. If you really want like 32mb of ram is enough.
"admits" seems to indicate that it's true. I would never run a windows 10 machine on 8 gigs of ram let alone windows 11. It may boot but you will struggle to do anything worthwhile on it.
It's absolutely insane an OS has such re4quirements.
An OS is basically just a kernel with a shell on top for starting apps. Although the kernel of a modern OS is a technological marvel, it doesn't even require 1GB. The requirement should not be specified by the OS, but for what software is run on top of it.
On Linux you can Run a full fledged desktop, and a web browser and office pack on 2GB easy, and with 4GB even have breathing room, and even have 8 TTY's available just in case.
This sounds like the same Vista requirements back in the day. Sure it "ran" on 512mb of RAM, but you sure as shit weren't doing anything else than looking at the desktop.
I'm old enough to remember when everyone generally agreed that using fewer resources is a good thing.
I remember clearly when Gates had stated that "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Fooled me once.
Bill Gates never said that.
Everyone knows he did.
citation needed
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
Bill Gates never said that.
Everyone knows he did.
citation needed
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
True. He said he thought nobody would even need 640k!
Perhaps read the article you found. He thought 640k would be sufficient for 10 years, but in fact it was only enough for 6.
I can't even get the PC to not be using 95-100% ram on 16gb...
takes 10-15 minutes to be SOMEWHAT stable after a fresh boot.
it's a work pc so idgaf but there's NO WAY IN SHIT that 8gb will function.
