Windows 11 has just got a 'major' upgrade, and you're probably going to hate it because it uses 1-2GB RAM all the time.
  • Jesus@lemmy.world
    79·
    10 days ago

    Cut Meta some slack. They’re not Nvidia. They’re only a $1.5T company. They can’t make everything native.

  • muhyb@programming.dev
    33·
    10 days ago

    And they sell laptops with 4 GB RAM and pre-installed Windows 11 here. No idea how they work. :)

    • AnomanderRake@lemmy.mlEnglish
      35·
      10 days ago

      They don’t!

      A friend told me they had a laptop that just suddenly stopped working and took forever to boot up.

      Turns out it was a W10 laptop and it prompted them to install Windows 11 which basically made it non functional. Took 10+ minutes to boot and could barely open a single browser window. I installed Linux and suprise surprise the laptop worked perfecly fine.

      • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        5·
        10 days ago

        that’s not even a new thing…

        my mother had a windows 7 laptop for work, she upgraded it to windows 10 (microsoft did a similar nagging back then) and not only did it become atrociously slow, a bunch of hardware drivers also stopped working, including pretty important stuff like USB

        unfortunately linux wouldn’t have been an option cause the software she needed was (and still is) windows only

        • Damage@feddit.it
          3·
          9 days ago

          Windows upgrades sound like a nightmare anyway, no way I’d trust an upgraded installation. Fresh install or nothing.

      • muhyb@programming.dev
        4·
        10 days ago

        No surprise there!

        Then they sell useless OOTB laptops. Those laptops desperately need Linux (or BSD).

  • arrowMace@lemmy.world
    22·
    10 days ago

    Tip: you can use the WhatsApp web site for text messaging (I don’t think it works for audio/video?) and if you want to use it in a standalone window you can “install” it as a web app (in most browsers). It’ll use way less RAM running in your existing browser than running a separate electron instance.

      • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        Since when? Because last I used it Video and Audio calls required their native app (their excuse was their encryption couldn’t run on the website)

      • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        9 days ago

        That’s part of enshittification I’d say. It’s all about squeezing your users for as much money as you can, and surveillance is part of that.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    9 days ago

    The one fucking app of theirs that was done really well and they kill it.
    Microsoft might as well deprecate their UI Toolkit now. The best 3rd party app to showcase it is dead and even their own apps are just web wrappers nowadays 🙄

  • Silar@lemmy.ml
    8·
    9 days ago

    There are so many better alternatives than both meta and windows. It’s enshitification personified.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
    4·
    9 days ago

    So, like Steam, half of all (“native”) E-Mail clients and almost all Markdown readers? I mean, there’s a fucking Bash script around to correctly display Markdown in the shell.

    What a time to compute.

  • Mihies@programming.dev
    21·
    10 days ago

    TBH that happens when there is enough RAM available. I’d be surprised if the usage didn’t get go down under memory pressure.