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Heavy prerequisites....

    At least 4 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)
    At least 1 GB of free disk space (SSD recommended)
    At least two CPU cores (four cores with hyperthreading recommended)

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How is any of this heavy? Every entry level laptop or desktop sold in the last 5 years (probably longer) will meet these requirements.

1GB of free disk space is trivial, 2 CPU cores and 4GB is the minimum requirement for Windows 11; so its hardly “heavy requirements”, its basically “a relatively recent PC”.

Recommended is a bit more onerous, but, 8GB and 4 hyperthreading cores isn’t a lot . I’ve got a two-year-old midrange laptop (other than having a fairly nice dGPU for something not marketed for gaming, but that’s not really really relevant here) and its got 16GB of RAM and 6HT cores.

>its basically “a relatively recent PC”.

I would challenge recent. For a power user who would engage in these features, that feels like at least baseline specs from 10+ years ago. On a larf, I queried "dell 2012 laptop" and came to this review for a Dell XPS 15[0]. Probably a more performant laptop than the average user, but this thing has a quad-core with 8GB ram.

[0] https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/dell-xps-15-2012-r...

Sure, it’ll work on more powerful older computers; I’m just saying practically any recent windows PC will work.

It’s fine to keep using old hardware, but with lower specs than that, windows 10/11 is completely unusable anyway. With such specs you probably want to use some lightweight Linux distribution, if you don’t enjoy looking at the hourglass-cursor most of your workday…

I don't think any of those are a tall ask for powerusers in 2023

Those are all at or below the Windows 11 System Requirements.

Are you from 2010? What computer doesn’t have 4GB of ram? My phone has more than that

With those pre-reqs, is there anything Windows Sandbox can do that Sandboxie can't?

https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie

Hypervisor isolation. Sandboxie works at the kernel level which is a much larger attack surface.

Sandboxie is great, didn't know there was a fork.

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