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Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support (ghacks.net)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Windows often uses 8GB at idle for me with a single browser window open due to how much background BS it runs that is entirely irrelevant to anything I use the PC for. I upgraded to 32GB, then just finally decided to switch to Linux for good because it uses around 4-5GB with 10+ programs open (and most of that is Steam and Discord being inefficient).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Windows tends to use at least a quarter of system ram anyways

As long as you got enough storage for page fileing you should be aokay at least in my experience

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I had about 16TB of total storage when it was using that much RAM. It still didn't like it.