• kadu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Windows 11 is great. The animations and overall design consistency is much improved over 10. It’s also super stable, and pretty much required if you want to leverage modern CPUs with assymetric cores.

    That being said, for my personal use, my version of Windows 11 is deeply modified and this ends up breaking features like Windows Update and Windows Defender, which you might care about.

    But seriously, for the normal user, just install it normally, uninstall the few built in apps it installs by default if you wish, and keep it updated. It works great. Don’t install third party “debloated” versions, they’re awful and not necessary.

    Also, please, don’t fall for the Reddit (and now Lemmy) bizarre habit of showing a screenshot of Windows using 4 GBs of RAM and claiming “iT’s AlL tHe bLoaT” because that’s not how Windows’ RAM allocation has worked for the past two decades.

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      1 year ago

      Also, please, don’t fall for the Reddit (and now Lemmy) bizarre habit of showing a screenshot of Windows using 4 GBs of RAM and claiming “iT’s AlL tHe bLoaT” because that’s not how Windows’ RAM allocation has worked for the past two decades.

      RAM usage is RAM usage, and besides the allocation still being awful and you probably having less RAM available in a heavy task, this means substantial power consumption, that costs money.

      You can think that it’s normal to do a bunch of things that threaten the system stability to get an OS that barely pretends it’s not spying on you anymore. I do not think it’s. I don’t think it’s normal to have to disable advertising on a paid system, but to each their own “¯_(ツ)_/¯”.

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        Windows has been doing prefetching and caching all the way from 7 but even more so since 10. Also since 10 it does memory compression too.

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        RAM usage is RAM usage, and besides the allocation still being awful and you probably having less RAM available in a heavy task, this means substantial power consumption, that costs money.

        Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Even if it’s just the OS keeping apps on memory for faster launches. If you do need heavy RAM for a task your OS is clever enough to reshuffle things.

        Used RAM does use more electricity but that is so neglible it’s a non-issue and no argument.

        Of my 32 GB at least 26 GB are constantly in use.

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          Even if it’s just the OS keeping apps on memory for faster launches. If you do need heavy RAM for a task your OS is clever enough to reshuffle things.

          The problem is that when it is relocated, processor consumption increases. And as matter of fact, my operating system doesn’t cache anything and still opens applications very quickly, even faster than Windows.

          Used RAM does use more electricity but that is so neglible it’s a non-issue and no argument.

          Maybe isn’t a issue to you but for anyone with a laptop it is and it’s pretty visible.

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            1 year ago

            What processor are you using, a 486? Memory management should be effectively instant on any modern platform.

            I also find it extremely hard to believe that your unspecified OS doesn’t do any caching. Even vxworks does caching.

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      1 year ago

      That’s what I was most worried about, i’d heard that it hogged resources. Thanks for the info! I’ll look up if the softwares I use for work are natively compatible.