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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baselineEnglish

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I did all this on XP with 512MB of RAM (ok it wasn’t online versions of excel, but more or less)

I did all this on XP with 512MB of RAM (ok it wasn’t online versions of excel, but more or less)
It’s just incredible how what I used as a kid is like not even booting an OS anymore and what a system requires to idle would be considered NASA-levels of RAM back then. I mean sixteen GIGA bytes? You is joking.
Really seems like developers (yeah there’s execs and middle managers and the whole business that comes along with them) just let everything bloat to high heavens once hardware became more readily available