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Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM (www.theverge.com)
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[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The whole minimum HW requirements is so bullshit. It's all about bloat. I have a stick pc and a tablet with some Atom CPU, 2Gb RAM, that run W10 reasonably well. No rockets and will probably choke on many apps, but for web stuff (just don't keep more than 2-3 tabs open) media playing, and light stuff they are surprisingly capable. I have installed Antix Linux on one, and it's a really capable machine.

  1. Gigabytes. of. RAM.
[–] OS2Warp@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

No rockets and will probably choke on many apps…

You should always spring for the rocket model.