• DokPsy
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    2 days ago

    As someone who deals with various windows bullshit on the daily, 8gb for win11 is fine assuming you don’t use any applications. If you want to actually use the machine, 16gb is the absolute minimum

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        2 days ago

        Honestly some of my biggest fights are with browsers being ram hogs and edgewebview2 constantly shitting the bed causing excessive ram utilisation and various crashes to basic office applications

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      1 day ago

      I had to uninstall chrome and switch to edge on my work laptop just to make it usable. 8 is barely enough, if you’re very careful