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Windows 11 is breaking Legacy Media Player features to push you to a modern app that uses 3x more RAM
(www.windowslatest.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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Push you to a modern OS*
If the old one still works perfectly fine, why do we need a more "modern" one. Why are we not given the choice? Maybe I don't want the extra "features" (probably some ai crap)
Windows is borked though, for the most part, and they charge you for the convenience. Meanwhile many Linux distros have popped up in the past ten years that give the user exactly nothing they don't want. Life's easier shrug -- sorry if i implied that a newer version of Windows was the answer aha