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[-] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Opening excel and outlook on a win11 PC brings you to almost 16GB of memory used. I don't know how anybody is still selling computers with 8GB of ram.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 5 points 9 months ago

Why in the hell do those programs take up so much space?

[-] kogasa@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Usually, caching. They can and do use less RAM if you have less free, at the cost of slower performance.

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