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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2025 09:45:11 -0700
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On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 02:53:46 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> It wasn=E2=80=99t just another SKU with a different price (and licence), =
it=20
> actually had built-in functional limitations to ensure it was not=20
> competing with regular, full-fat Windows.
>=20
> Unfortunately, those limitations did little or nothing to reduce its=20
> resource usage.

Not surprising; Windows 11 is an absolute pig, worse even than 10
(which you can at least trim down with a little effort.) 8 GB is barely
enough to run the OS itself without swapping, and four threads/cores is
the absolute bare minimum - it's utterly unusable on a Core 2 Duo.