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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by asdfasgasdgasdg on Saturday June 20, 2026 @04:43PM (#48612821)
I normally don't have notepad.exe or the windows media player open, so it's irrelevant. Chrome, clangd, rustc, etc. are all that matter. Optimizing anything else fails the pareto principle. I definitely do not want Microsoft paying its engineers to optimize windows media player memory usage.
Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by hsbauauvhabzb on Saturday June 20, 2026 @10:00PM (#48614978)
I don’t want a trillion dollar investment in ram reduction, but the fist 80% of optimisation will be trivially achieved. Microsoft have a conflict of interest given they also sell surface devices where pushing people to the more expensive models is beneficial, while also probably benefiting when other hardware manufacturers benefit too.