Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick'

Re:Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick' by newjersey on Friday May 27, 2016 @05:39AM (#11784882)

What would someone with 2GB memory do with a computer? State at the desktop? Once you start opening tabs, Firefox and Chrome can easily take up 4GB memory if available.

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Re:Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick' by Piskvorrr on Friday May 27, 2016 @06:36AM (#11785066)

If available. If not, you'll quickly learn to not open 50 tabs (it's not like you're actually browsing in all of them). Had to work on such a PC out of necessity, and :5 tabs should be enough for everyone" ;)

But seriously: 2 GB on Windows (7) is still usable, even though not entirely comfortable. (Of course, on LXLE, 2 GB is a lot, but that's an entirely different can of worms)

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Re:Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick' by tehbeard on Friday May 27, 2016 @06:22AM (#11785021)

Isn't it only 1.5GB that'd be left for user apps? I seem to recall 32-bit windows only had 3.5GB total accessible for some reason.

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Re:Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick' by ido on Friday May 27, 2016 @06:28AM (#11785041)

32bits can only address max 4gb ram and I think video ram was counted for or some other overhead. With 2gb the 32bit maximum should have no effect.

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