Comment by vel0city

Comment by vel0city a day ago

Shouldn't you then also complain that explorer.exe is consuming 200MB when previous graphical desktops managed it in handfuls of kilobytes? Once again, why is 200MB OK, but 500MB, oh boy, that's just far too much. Couldn't that CAD software also make use of that other 200MB? Why not demand 20MB? Or 2MB? Or 20KB?

How much of that extra 300MB is paged out and not actually in active memory? On both systems, how much of the total is actually paged out and not in current system memory?

Are you trying to run a modern CAD system on a device with only 512MB of RAM or something?

mapontosevenths 21 hours ago

What do I get out of it using double the memory? It has zero new features that a normal human would want. There's supposed to be a benefit in a cost/benefit comparison or you just get a divide by zero error.

See my other comment in this thread for a list of the many, many, many ways Microsoft continues to chose not to improve.

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vel0city 21 hours ago

There's a number of new features to the Windows desktop experience, I'm not really interested in reenumerating all of Microsoft's marketing here.
Personally I find the Windows 11 desktop experience far better than 10, despite it possibly using 1% more of my system memory at peak times.
And FWIW, on my Windows 11 desktop explorer.exe is using 110MB, not even 200MB.

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- mapontosevenths 18 hours ago
  
  > There's a number of new features to the Windows desktop experience, I'm not really interested in reenumerating all of Microsoft's marketing here.
  I was speaking specifically about the file explorer in this context, though you'd have to go back to the grandparent post at least to see that.
  
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  vel0city 17 hours ago
  
  You were speaking of explorer.exe's memory usage. That includes practically all the desktop experience. The right click menu, the desktop, the taskbar, the start menu, and more. Kill the process and see what all disappears. So no, you weren't speaking specifically about the file explorer, though it would take having some knowledge to understand that.
  
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