Pavan Davuluri says the rising cost of memory is why Windows 11 will use less RAM, with work on the memory manager, WinUI 3 and WebView2.

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    3 days ago

    I recently had to configure an older Thinkpad X1 Carbon G8 for my little brother. It’s only got 8GB of RAM unfortunately and he needs Windows.

    So I installed Windows 11 IoT LTSC like I usually do, installed all necessary drivers and manually deactivated services that don’t need to run. It still uses 3GB of RAM while idling.

    My 2-year-old daily driver Manjaro install uses half of that, and that’s on a system with 32GB RAM where Windows would almost certainly use more just because there’s more

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        3 days ago

        I haven’t looked at Tiny10/11 in a long while actually. I remember it not really working that well, although maybe it still was in beta back then.

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          iot would be the far better choice over using one of the debloaters or minimized installers.

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          10 still receives free updates, LTSC will have support for some time after and IOT I think until 2030.

          But Debian will work in a fucking toaster for the next forever, so there’s that.

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              2 days ago

              Debian 12 has support for 32 bit and security updates until 2028.

              So really not reaching 2030 for that toaster, but better than any multi trillion company

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            The thing is those are just security updates, most software will work for the time being, but it only been a year and some newer DX12 games already having issues with 10 unfortunately.