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[–] 189 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Just tell your AI agents to reduce the RAM usage and install size by 20% and let them rip. How hard can it be?

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    More like tell your users to only run services in the cloud and not to run anything on their own computers.

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    [–] 117 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Amateurs. On my personal pc, windows RAM usage is exactly 0.

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  • [–] 88 points 5 months ago (32 children)

    Windows 11 is not based on a single unified UI framework. Instead, it uses a mix of legacy Win32 components, UWP elements, modern WinUI layers, and web-based technologies like WebView2 and React.

    I am reading this as MMC snap-ins and control panel. There is no other alternative to manage these settings outside of PowerShell.

    Also, what idiot decided that only one settings window is allowed open at one time? Sometimes I would like to be in Windows update, power settings, Ethernet settings, and printer settings all at once.

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  • [–] 46 points 5 months ago* (21 children)

    I hate how the settings app is taking over control panel entries to make them worse and show me the original control panel window after going down 3 levels because the stupid fucks can't design UI for shit.

    Thankfully, you can still get to a lot of them if you know the name of the control panel applet.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Also, what idiot decided that only one settings window is allowed open at one time?

    Microsoft engineers were worried that people missed the joys of MS-DOS and having only one application running at once. Next up, will be the return of base memory versus expanded memory versus extended memory. This ends when they devolve Windows to prove Bill Gates right that 640kB should be enough memory for anyone.

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  • [–] 84 points 5 months ago (16 children)

    All at a time where I think I’m actually going to switch to Linux.

    I just tried out an install on my laptop and boy does it work well even for gaming.

    Windows has, nothing I actually need any more?

    It feels really big to really leave Windows for good, but, I think it’s going to happen after a bit more testing of my Linux setup.

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  • [–] 54 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I told myself I'd give Win11 (using tools to uninstall all the bullshit/tracking) for 3-4 months before seriously considering linux. I made it 3 months, got tired of having to re-uninstall shit I don't want every update and just flat out wiped the install and installed CachyOS. It's been perfect, even new game releases like Death Stranding 2 worked out of the box, fuck windows.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    This is why its been announced now. With all the tracking Microsoft has in W11, including being able to track usage to an email account for most, they will have a good idea who has binned windows and who hasn't.

    Its this volume of switching that has them worried enough to actually pretend to fix things. I say pretend as its fairly obvious what they need to remove to reduce the bloat on RAM but their business it tied to it now, like concrete over boots on a mafia snitch.

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    [–] 61 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    If it worked out, the idle Windows 11 RAM usage would’ve been around 4.8GB

    That's still a lot

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  • [–] 47 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Considering 8GB systems are back in vogue, that's a fuckload. More than half your ram just going to the computer existing.

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago*

    Well no, its doing more than just existing, its sending screen shots of your screen to Microsoft, displaying ads, updating advertising ID to allow them to track you across the web, uploading your typing history It all helps shareholders of microslop.

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    [–] 51 points 5 months ago (15 children)

    If it worked out, the idle Windows 11 RAM usage would’ve been around 4.8GB

    Me on beefy Linux distro with a metric ton of garbage installed: 3.2GB

    Good luck vibe coding memory efficiency...

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    [–] 25 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Ironically the install ISO actually went up in size from roughly 5.5GB to 7.5GB in the recent months.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    All that tracking software is bloated.

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    [–] 24 points 5 months ago

    Maybe they should try not writing OS code in react. Perhaps they should consider dedicating as many resources to cleaning up code as they do to adding “features.”

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago

    There's some very aggressive autocorrect programs that seem to be bloating all their current software. They should start with taking those out.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I wish windows went down a different path. Instead they decided to double down on ads and ai, because shareholders are more important than the actual customers

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    [–] 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Maybe they should make a really new windows version and not a mix from 7,8,10 patched together.. with all the problems carried + AI coding making things worse.

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  • Obvious course of events considering how the commodity PC market is essentially cut off from RAM supply for an indeterminate number of years with no respite in sight. Memory isn't cheap anymore, and if they kept making Windows 11 as they used to it won't be long before PCs in the market are simply left unable to run the OS at all.

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