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Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost
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This is one area where I will agree with MS. 32 MB extra RAM consumption is worth it for even a moderate speed boost.
That being said, the vast majority of modern applications run like shit. You have electron apps which are comically terrible in their performance metrics, but even beyond that you often have apps takeing up 100s of MBs and eating up a stupid amount of RAM considering what they do.
Yea the damn start menu is an electron app now. Ffs where did we go wrong?