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It does not matter how well or poorly Chrome mismanages memory, 400MB is still 400MB. If that 400MB is 10% of the free RAM after the share the OS takes, then that is a hefty toll. And the regular updates Windows 11 users are getting are famously not providing value, but taking value away. Case in point right here is the new media player.

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People try to use Windows 11 with 4GB of RAM?

I doubt that's viable, honestly... At that point, just don't use microslop software

Windows Server 2022 comes up just fine in 4-8GB RAM disposable qubes. I can easily load Adobe MCCS6 applications in that. I can run Mathematica in that. I can load Siemens NX 10-12 in that and do basic modeling!

#StopTheBloat #StopTheOffshoring

I have a few Azure VMS running server 2022 with 2GB running as a controller. Works surprisingly well.

And you're running windows media player on these? I doubt that, so entirely unrelated to the fact that windows 11 does not, which is the OS the vibecoded slop media player is gonna be used on.

> This new software replaces Groove Music and the classic Windows Media Player across all Windows 11 PCs.

Windows 10 was viable with 4 GB, assuming you restricted yourself. Nowadays it mostly isn't, precisely because of things like this.

I said 10% of the free RAM. 4GB should be enough, but I'm talking about the 4GB you might get left over from 8GB.

I thought I might have been undergenerous, but I just looked it up, and people report Windows 11 really does idle around 4GB RAM on a fresh install. Geeze :(

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