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by patatero 1176 days ago
> This literally isn't Windows where 32GB of RAM is the new minimum.

wut. I have a 16GB Windows machine and it's fine.
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Clubber 1176 days ago
I think he was being intentionally hyperbolic, alluding to the fact that Windows' published minimum specs are way to low (like Vista) and the actual specs needed to run are much higher because the bloat.
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layer8 1176 days ago
“Way too low” isn’t really true. I have RDP and Firefox and Word and Excel open, and Windows still uses just around 4 GB of RAM according to Task Manager.
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Clubber 1176 days ago
It depends on the version. In Vista, the one mentioned, they certainly were. It you ran a computer using the minimum specs, it was almost unusable.

https://www.osnews.com/story/16675/vista-minimum-requirement...

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goosedragons 1176 days ago
The same could be said of Mac OS 10.4 at the same time. It was an absolute dog on systems without Quartz Extreme support.
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babypuncher 1176 days ago
Vista came out over 15 years ago, it hardly seems relevant today.
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layer8 1176 days ago
Yes, but I think Vista was an outlier in that respect.
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Clubber 1176 days ago
It was certainly the most egregious I recall, but here's an article complaining about Windows 10 minimum specs too.

https://winaero.com/the-real-system-requirements-for-windows...

Here's one for Windows 11

https://www.makeuseof.com/is-4gb-ram-enough-for-windows-11/

Seems Windows 8 was ok

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2221048/will-windows-8-...

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