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by pedrocr 2238 days ago
> The total data loss was limited, the costs of employees not being able to work was a lot worst.

The productivity costs of all those mitigating measures shouldn't be ignored either. Modern corporate Windows images are incredible in how much CPU and RAM they can waste even at idle.
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dzhiurgis 2238 days ago
It's probably shit metric as my two browsers open now use 10GB of RAM on MacOS, but Windows 10 requires 2-4x less minimum RAM to run when compared with latest Ubuntu...
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pedrocr 2237 days ago
The problem isn't Windows. It's all the third-party stuff that gets added to Windows by corporate IT departments.
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