Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2025 20:37:23 +0200 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <38b7mlxtv4.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <106ncfl$1i3j7$1@dont-email.me> <106otv7$1sov2$3@dont-email.me> <106p5l8$1u8pt$1@dont-email.me> <106p7bq$1uggd$1@dont-email.me> <20250804094511.00003aeb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ZWBaJB5LvsF9KXw3IVwHuwiTGDJKDt1WjpmpFNYBcUSJCcgq1P X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:VVXI5gMIkCkAsoxIYdCoisyiHug= sha256:t91YbymrT+dha7Vm3lN2SBOVnPDFc4lAQByJ2W18vz0= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <20250804094511.00003aeb@gmail.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70338 alt.comp.os.windows-11:21663 On 2025-08-04 18:45, John Ames wrote: > On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 02:53:46 -0000 (UTC) > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> It wasn’t just another SKU with a different price (and licence), it >> actually had built-in functional limitations to ensure it was not >> competing with regular, full-fat Windows. >> >> Unfortunately, those limitations did little or nothing to reduce its >> 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. I have it on a virtual machine with two cores and 4 GB (75GB disk). Works fine. -- Cheers, Carlos.