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8GB RAM isn't even enough to run Teams + Windows 11 on corporate PCs, not with all the other bullshit they make you install.
Anecdotal, so don't trust my word on that.
I was surprised, but Windows 10 seems to adapt to amount of RAM availiable and it even tries to function on 4GB systems while leaving some space for programs user needs. On 8GB it gets to use more resources itself. And on 16+ it doesn't change anymore.
I suspect it is their MO to convince the 7/8 users for the initial free-of-charge switch.
Lol I just checked my RAM usage on my work laptop, literally nothing running besides Teams (and whatever else my work has going on in the background) and it's over 9GB
It's a good thing for the OS to use as much RAM as available. Why pay for ram if you're not going to use it?
It is. But having the RAM running at a constant high load just slows everything down.
Also, teams being so badly optimised that it needs that much to run is just bullshit
Does it? Theoretically it shouldn't slow down just because high ram usage unless you are truly fulling it and RAM needs to constantly free stuff.
A pc with ram running at almost 100% capacity is slow as shit, this isn't a secret....
Minimum for our Windows PCs is 32gb. Largely because security doesn't want to reel in their shit. It's still not enough.
My computer uses 32 GB at idle. Even 64 GB is hardly enough for all the shit I do and the security bloatware on top of win11 being dogshit