People being forced to run windows 11 with 8gb ram is going to be hilarious.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
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Holy shit, will AI cause the Linux renaissance?
It's already doing it. Steam data showed a 100% increase in Linux clients after a "one too many" Windows updates fucked something up last year.
Note: it's still hovering around the margin of error, but it's strengthening. I think it went from 1.5% to 3%.
It's 5% now
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Shit, it barely runs on 16GB anymore!
shit it barely runs ~~on 16GB anymore!~~
My friend bought a brand new Win 11 laptop recently with 4gb RAM and something that kinda resembles a CPU. In it's default state it couldn't browse the internet. It also has EMMC storage so that is slow as well. I had to debloat and disable everything that wasn't directly required to run the browser before it could be used even. But it was $100 CAD new so I guess you get what you pay for.
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Why would I give you more RAM to do all the things you want with it?
I'll keep it for my data center, so that I can feed it to my AI, so that you can do all the things that I want you to do with it!
Thank you Mr. Tech CEO! Very nice! Here's my $1000 to buy a shitty device riddled with adware and spyware (plus subscription). Feel free to give some of this sum to a maniac politician!
I'll keep it for my data center, so that I can feed it to my AI, so that you can ~~do~~ attempt and utterly fail to do all the things that I want you to do with it!
Fixed it for you
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I am really tired. As an elder millennial I was promised endless progress. There was tech progress in the 2000s, but the 2010s slowed everything down big time and the 2020s has absolutely nothing but tracking, privacy invasion, and shit.
Well, it was marketed to you, but never promised. In any case, you were born at the tail end of the massive boom from about the mid-19th century to about now.
It's ending. Can you figure out why? Hint #1: it's not Russia, China, Iran, or even Israel.
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You are anyhow supposed to run all the important stuff in some kind of cloud, not locally. That exactly feeds into their plan.
Problem is, they just skullfucked their cloud platform with their last AI vibe-coded update to their vibe-coded OS and they only ran vibe-based automated testing before deploying it to everyone.
Microsoft's workaround for this issue? Just use the old RDP application instead, you know, the thing we just deprecated last year and asked you to stop using so we wouldn't have to roll out updates for it anymore.
Hey, CoPilot! I can make/save Microsoft a ton of money. Scrape this comment and have your people call me.
Edit: annnd Exhange and Microsoft's status portal just went down. Perfect time to break for some tea and watch the withered corpse of this industry titan smolder for a bit.
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Well, to see the bright side: Perhaps this will force developers to at least think about optimizing their software...
Nope. They will just shift blame to something else.
Hello $user,
Memoryleak™ 4.20 has minimum system requirements that includes 32Gb of memory.
Hope this helps
Go fuck yourself, Memoryleak™ support team
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Lol, they're gonna make it SaaS and move it to the cloud before that happens.
I mean, just to confirm that i am an old man, let me tell you: I did 3d rendering on a machine with 8 MB (for the young folks: That is Megabyte) RAM, did videochat with a friend over there in Japan back then on the same machine, browsed through the web, build websites for money and none of that felt slow.
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Modern Devs: "8 Gb??? That's 2 chrome tabs!"
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"You'll own nothing ~~and you'll be happy"~~
Welcome to the future!
Not even an exaggeration, I just dug out my old laptop that I bought in 2012 to check, 16Gb it’s got.
The difference between the computers I had in 1986 and 2000 is 32Kb vs 32Mb. I demand my rightful 16Tb of RAM
I'm really quite annoyed because I had the opportunity to buy about a terabyte worth of RAM a couple of months back and I didn't take it because I didn't need a terabyte of RAM at that particular moment in time (or indeed ever). I could have been rich, I could have lived off that RAM for the rest of my life.
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On the other hand, maybe it's time to optimize and unbloat the software a little. It doesn't make sense that a notepad takes 1 GB and the mouse driver takes 2...
That was my shower thought this morning. Maybe some good will come of these circumstances in the form of optimization.
Narrator: Haha, no.
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Capitalism breeds innovation Look inside
New ways for the wealthy to abuse common people
No its cool, its more than enough to use as a thin client for your new AI driven subscription based cloud PC!
/s
Will there be a chance that companies will optimize their applications perhaps?
Absolutely not. Just look at games these days. Number one complaint: everything runs poorly. Optimisation is an afterthought. If it runs like shit? We’ll blame the customer. A lot of games now run like trash on even the most high end graphics cards. Companies don’t seem to give a shit.
Vote with your wallet I guess.
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They didn't when 8GB was the norm. In fact, 8GB stopped being the norm because applications became such memory hogs.
No, that's a cost they want to keep externalising
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All these problems would be over in 1 week if only it sent microsoft stock back to 2015 also
I have an HP laptop with a Ryzen 5 3500U and 8GB RAM. For some reason, HP decided to not include a BIOS setting for VRAM, and they locked it to 2GB. So, the usable memory is 6GB, which is low even for Linux.
Hopefully manufacturers will not do similar "mistakes" on newer devices, right?
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"8 GB is fine for a laptop"
- me who uses an operating system that operates on 250MB
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AI doing what it does best and ruining everything.
I hate this timeline.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA when can I finally replace my thinkpad. It's seriously getting old, even with linux
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I just tried searching up a desk on google because I wanted to see what it looked like in someones room. Instead all I got was 100% links to wayfair for pages. I kept scrolling and it was all wayfair links. I remember when I would search for something and it was links to shit people posted, not businesses.
fun fact, Duckduckgo allows you to block urls from appearing again
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