Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f...
by qmr on Saturday June 20, 2026 @08:21PM
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Why would you use such a system?
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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f...
by ruszki on Saturday June 20, 2026 @11:43PM
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Because no matter what a lot of people say here: you still need to be lucky to have a fully functioning system on Linux without continuous roadblocks everywhere. And I’m saying this after using Linux for more than a quarter of a century, occasionally as my main OS. I switched from it back just a few months ago, after I gave up to figure out how to have more uptime on battery for half a year, how to make my monitors with widely different DPIs work properly (literally without crashing the whole system), how to simply play a video reliably, and these just after solving a bunch of different issues already. And my lifestyle really doesn’t allow that battery drain issue at all.