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Microsoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baseline
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this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2026
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Having the drivers installed is fine and, quite frankly, good; for exactly the reason you point out. When they aren't being used they are only taking up disk space. And that is OK, nobody is particularly upset with Windows' disk space.
It is the RAM usage, telemetry, and other running processes that just don't need to be running. These are the things that make a Windows setup so bloated. One doesn't need to reach out and tell MS every time you open the start menu, one doesn't need Candy Crush and One Drive ads appearing in the OS. There is no good way to turn all that off. That is just using resources and making the OS worse for users.
It shouldn't take a measurable amount of time to find the calculator when I start typing "cal" in the application menu. And yet it frequently takes upwards of 10 seconds for anything to show up at all.
I love you LibreOffice but please stop opening your Excel program when I type “Cal” into the start menu hahaha
(I heavily recommend OpenShell on any Windows 10/11 machines. It makes everything look soooo much better, is hella customizable, removes the horrible garbage search that sucks ass and replaces it with good fast Windows 7 style search, and soooo much more. W10/11 start menu is unusable without it, it’s a mess.)