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0 pointsbsilvereagle10y ago0 comments

An Arch Linux install with i3 as the window manager will consume <300MB of RAM and be (subjectively) more responsive than Windows. On the same machine, a default Windows 7 install will take 1.6GB of RAM.

I think it's a baseline like this that leaves people wondering why Windows by default needs to consume large amounts of RAM.

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ac2910y ago

>On the same machine, a default Windows 7 install will take 1.6GB of RAM.

Are you sure about that? https://i.imgur.com/jXRrEJS.png

My mostly stock install of Win8.1 seems to use less than 600MB at idle. I 100% agree with you that Linux can be more efficient (that screenshot was taken from a VM running on Linux, which is my primary OS), but Windows isn't that awful memory wise.

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