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Microsoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baseline (www.windowslatest.com)
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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Webslop apps sucks. Less functionality and written with react.

    Does it work for most stuff, yeah. But it still sucks. Google sheets is tolerable but annoying.

    Do I need all the extra crap in excel? No, but it’s a mature program and doesn’t really need new features and constant tweaks.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    I did all this on XP with 512MB of RAM (ok it wasn't online versions of excel, but more or less)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    It's just incredible how what I used as a kid is like not even booting an OS anymore and what a system requires to idle would be considered NASA-levels of RAM back then. I mean sixteen GIGA bytes? You is joking.

    Really seems like developers (yeah there's execs and middle managers and the whole business that comes along with them) just let everything bloat to high heavens once hardware became more readily available

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