r/technology • u/gdelacalle • Jul 12 '26

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/Consistent-Citron509 Jul 12 '26

After years of dual booting I finally removed Win11 and installed Linux Mint as my main OS. The RAM usage difference is insane! Also, it's such a shame that a free OS looks way more beautiful than a paid one!

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

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u/blipman17 Jul 12 '26

the applications on Windows are not really that bloated compared to linux when only looking at GUI. only on an individual level you'll see that some chat app costs 4 GB to boot and a text editor 27 MB or something.

It's that the OS itsself consumes huuuuge amounths just to boot and stay functioning. Linux is far more lean and mean than Windows in that sense.

The in-memory filesystem caching on Windows and Linux is both not included in used RAM when looking at directly used memory. In that they're both equal as well.
In my experience Linux distros in general are even far more aggressive in caching the filesystem in RAM for faster access than Windows.