I already have 8GB RAM PC optimization at home. It’s called Linux.
Ha! Came here to say just that :P
But having tested Windows Insider builds for months now, hands-on with the new decluttered Search and the faster File Explorer, I’m inclined to believe Microsoft can pull this off.
Microsoft has already rebuilt the File Explorer Properties dialog in WinUI, Microsoft’s native UI framework that’s significantly lighter than WebView2 since it doesn’t need to spin up a browser engine just to render a dialog box, and confirmed plans to bring more of the OS onto the framework.
What a nonsensical statement - they make it sound like the windows properties dialog was WebView2/Electron, but in fact it was Win32 api; WinUI is going to be much heavier. The bloat continues
Can’t they just ask copilot to optimise win11 for less ram?
I’m going against the wind here….
But the real heroes are old smartphones.
My iPhone 4 had 512MB RAM. Yet even hacked and modded and themed, it flew. It was so smooth, always usable, futuristic feeling; it honestly jammed up less than my iPhone 16.
Heck. It jammed up less than my desktop does now, with literally 300X the RAM.
Here’s hoe they can remove 8gb of ram usage: remove the shitty AI that windows 11 users can’t delete anymore. I remove it at the registry level and every update still adds it back in… just like that stupid xbox game bar that keeps pinning itself to my task bar every update.
No matter what they do, they’ll still be far greater in terms of memory consumption than the most bloated Linux desktop environment.
Linux desktops aren’t that light either
Yeah… that is just not true. I stripped Windows down to the freaking bone, but it still idles hotter and with more RAM than default Cachy KDE.
Like, I give Windows credit where it’s due. It’s still faster for some applications, better for certain things. But lighter, it is not.
Have you not heard of LXQt? And if you include window managers like Fluxbox, then there’s plenty of very low resource usage options.
