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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by lynndotpy on Saturday June 20, 2026 @02:09PM (#48611450)
It does not matter how well or poorly Chrome mismanages memory, 400MB is still 400MB. If that 400MB is 10% of the free RAM after the share the OS takes, then that is a hefty toll. And the regular updates Windows 11 users are getting are famously not providing value, but taking value away. Case in point right here is the new media player.
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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by ffsm8 on Saturday June 20, 2026 @03:30PM (#48612211)
People try to use Windows 11 with 4GB of RAM?

I doubt that's viable, honestly... At that point, just don't use microslop software

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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by rustcleaner on Saturday June 20, 2026 @04:21PM (#48612652)
Windows Server 2022 comes up just fine in 4-8GB RAM disposable qubes. I can easily load Adobe MCCS6 applications in that. I can run Mathematica in that. I can load Siemens NX 10-12 in that and do basic modeling!

#StopTheBloat #StopTheOffshoring

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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by Peanuts99 on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:03PM (#48613840)
I have a few Azure VMS running server 2022 with 2GB running as a controller. Works surprisingly well.
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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by ffsm8 on Sunday June 21, 2026 @11:15AM (#48619671)
And you're running windows media player on these? I doubt that, so entirely unrelated to the fact that windows 11 does not, which is the OS the vibecoded slop media player is gonna be used on.
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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by Telaneo on Saturday June 20, 2026 @04:28PM (#48612693)
Windows 10 was viable with 4 GB, assuming you restricted yourself. Nowadays it mostly isn't, precisely because of things like this.
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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by lynndotpy on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @12:06PM (#48661960)
I said 10% of the free RAM. 4GB should be enough, but I'm talking about the 4GB you might get left over from 8GB.

I thought I might have been undergenerous, but I just looked it up, and people report Windows 11 really does idle around 4GB RAM on a fresh install. Geeze :(

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