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I...didn't think windows 12 was actually a thing but here we are?

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[-] ziviz@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are necessitating 8GB of RAM. for what?! Like, it would be a struggle to find a machine with less than 8GB still being sold new, sure, but why does the OS need that RAM?

[-] totallynotfbi@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

To be honest, I think 8 GB is a more realistic requirement for light tasks nowadays, but not because of Windows - even Windows 10 would struggle with Chrome, Word, Excel, etc on just 4 GB, and I can't imagine that W11 is any better. Increasing the requirements would ensure that OEMs won't put Windows 12 on shitbox PCs with 4 GB and call them usable, just because they meet the bare-minimum standards.

[-] ziviz@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I guess. It seems wasteful to need 8GB just to run an OS and browser especially after Microsoft was pushing server core specifically to go the opposite route with resource utilization on servers.

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