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Compare it to utorrent that does so much more and is probably around 5mb of RAM.

Seriously, is your post satire or you think 23 mb for a calculator app is good?

Whole windows 95 (including a calculator app) fit in 16MB of RAM. In fact even less, since you could run few programs on top of it too. Connect to internet even..

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I use Teams on a daily basis. End up closing it to save some RAM as it's eating up around 800MB of RAM for a chat app.

23MB for a modern calculator in this day & age when many apps are written in Electron/EdgeHTML/web technologies is pretty good

Do people even use uTorrent anymore after the advertisements were brought in? I use qBittorrent when I need some Linux ISOs and in an idle state it's using 20MB which isn't bad either.

"Flu is not bad when we compare it to ebola" - is like choosing the lesser evil, bit still an evil.

The ancient version of utorrent (before ads) works fine.

Using an almost 12 year old piece of networking software doesn't seem very secure to me.

That's not even the point of the discussion. If the old version of utorrent was changed to fix something (no new functionalities), it would still have a low memory footprint.

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