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		AnonC 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that matte... But 8 GB on a Mac is way different (in a positive way) from 16 GB on a different OS. On Windows 11, I can’t even imagine anything lower than 32 GB being a decent experience.

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pjmlp 4 days ago | [–]

Given the quality of macOS memory allocator that is whishful thinking.

My Windows 11 machines have 16 GB and work just fine.

bigyabai 3 days ago | [–]

It's kinda not. Windows has virtual memory compression by-default, and even most Linux distros provide zram as an install-time option.

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