sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoMicrosoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baselinewww.windowslatest.comexternal-linkmessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1263arrow-down110
arrow-up1253arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baselinewww.windowslatest.comsanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square90fedilink
minus-squaremesa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 day agoTheres online comparisons somewhere on ram/cpu etc… win 11 is VERY bad at 8gb in most cases. Linux at 8gb mostly fly. Hell mac os works well at 8. Its just microslop doing their thing.
minus-squareDe Lancre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-216 hours ago Hell mac os works well at 8. I’m certified apple hater and “all linux” user, but in all fairness - MacOS does amazing job with ram managing. Caching, swap control and i\o priority scheduling made way better than on any linux distro.
Theres online comparisons somewhere on ram/cpu etc… win 11 is VERY bad at 8gb in most cases. Linux at 8gb mostly fly. Hell mac os works well at 8.
Its just microslop doing their thing.
I’m certified apple hater and “all linux” user, but in all fairness - MacOS does amazing job with ram managing. Caching, swap control and i\o priority scheduling made way better than on any linux distro.