As someone who deals with various windows bullshit on the daily, 8gb for win11 is fine assuming you don’t use any applications. If you want to actually use the machine, 16gb is the absolute minimum
As a dev that has to use windows, our laptop was fine on windows 10 with 32gb until it fell out of support and they updated everyone to windows 11.
After much fighting and proving with evidence that it was causing insane problems. They upgraded the devs to 64gb. I’m talking build times jumping from ~20 seconds to 15+ minutes if the ram use crept above about 70%…oof.
Honestly some of my biggest fights are with browsers being ram hogs and edgewebview2 constantly shitting the bed causing excessive ram utilisation and various crashes to basic office applications
As someone who deals with various windows bullshit on the daily, 8gb for win11 is fine assuming you don’t use any applications. If you want to actually use the machine, 16gb is the absolute minimum
I had to uninstall chrome and switch to edge on my work laptop just to make it usable. 8 is barely enough, if you’re very careful
As a dev that has to use windows, our laptop was fine on windows 10 with 32gb until it fell out of support and they updated everyone to windows 11.
After much fighting and proving with evidence that it was causing insane problems. They upgraded the devs to 64gb. I’m talking build times jumping from ~20 seconds to 15+ minutes if the ram use crept above about 70%…oof.
Honestly some of my biggest fights are with browsers being ram hogs and edgewebview2 constantly shitting the bed causing excessive ram utilisation and various crashes to basic office applications