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Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is a memory hog, promises 8GB RAM PC optimization by end of 2026
(www.windowslatest.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2026
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I have absolutely no faith or reason to believe that this is something Microsoft can do.
2027 is more likely, with a plethora of fuck ups and destruction along the way. Whats most likely is they just don't and instead do something that, in a way, "fakes it" by ripping resources from things or has the CPU fan spinning loudly.
Windows, in its current state, is a monster compiled of decades of shit and band-aids.
You should in fact have complete confidence that this is something Microsoft will 100% not deliver on: Microsoft has been around for half a century and has never put out genuinely good, stable and secure software. They simply don't know how to do good software - which, after such a long time, is nothing short of amazing.
Except nt4
NT was made by a bunch of VMS engineers that Microsoft poached from DEC. That's why it wasn't as shit as Microsoft's homegrown nonsense.
My work laptop with W11 already has the fans spinning very fast most of the time. When you turn it off you have this uneasy silence in the room.
After work, changing over to a Thinkpad with Fedora, it is silent, even getting it to play Rome 2.
I envy that you get a Linux-basrd laptop for work.
Opening up my W11 one is dread. Once it finally sorts itself out, it's latest thing is just hanging 365 applications for 3 mins for no reason, then resuming. It also decided to stop copying to clipboard yesterday which was resolved by rebooting, which of course took 15 mins due to Windows updates...
It's a decent 2025 laptop, but it's like warming up an old car before driving it through wet cement.
Id love a linux based work laptop. Mine wouldn't let me click on anything on the desktop unless I also did an absurdly long reboot.