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WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 33 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (6 children)

No, the worst app is Windows 11. My parents have some all-in-one HP PC. It has some Intel laptop processor from about 8 years ago, 16GB of ram, (upgraded from 8), and a wheezy 256GB spinning drive, running Win10 adequately.

After being bombarded with "upgrade to Windows 11! It's easy and fun!!" notifications, they did so, and of course their PC is woefully underpowered for the job.

I log in remotely and check what's running and the OS is paging to the swap file constantly. [Edit: and I mean, to the point where opening an application takes 60 seconds of disk thrashing for a window to appear]

I had to get a de-bloat script and turn off about 50 Microsoft "essential services". The biggest hog out of them all was copilot, which was using about 4GB while sitting there idle.

I have no doubt that I'm going to have to run that script every month as everything gets "repaired", until I can get back to their place and put a SSD in and maybe install some flavour of Linux.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Install Linux, Problem Solved.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago

I had to get a de-bloat script and turn off about 50 Microsoft "essential services"

And then a Windows Update comes along...

[–] feannag@sh.itjust.works 7 points 14 hours ago

My MILs computer has 8 GB of RAM... I have not yet convinced her she needs a new computer, but I did just install windows 10 iot ltsc on it so it will at least get security patches.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

put that script in task scheduler on repeat. let it run every day

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If you put in an ssd, Windows should run just fine.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's on the to-do list. I still don't like it endlessly paging though. I also hate Microsoft's push to get everyone on win11 even if their PC's will run like asthmatic slugs.

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca -2 points 11 hours ago

I have found every single PC of mine has benefitted from running Win11. Even those that don't meet the criteria. It's a solid OS.

[–] Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 0 points 14 hours ago

If they were happy with 10 give them Mint, they won't even notice if you skin it.