Something you might want to do if you are limited on RAM or having FPS issues with WIN 11
Remove the Microslop weather and news apps. They have over 1GB of background taken up in your RAM.
This helps your FPS
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Better yet, get something like the windows debloat tools that are popular and get like 85% of the microslop off.
Then check task manager and make sure you don’t have a dozen startup apps enabled, there’s always a ton of hidden stuff running in the background at all times. The Xbox app loves doing this, you wont even touch anything xbox related but then the xbox app will have processes taking resources.
or just move to IOT LTSC of Win10 which has support til 2032… just saying, its very light
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Eh even Windows 10 was ass in so many ways without counting the microslop bloat…
I miss windows 7 >:(
i mean, Win7 was not great, you know that, it was def light but as its predecessors, it had the Driver problems, you had to manually install each driver which was hell, only 8 and 8.1 solved it, in my opnion, Win 8.1 was still the best windows of the modern gen, if you didnt liked the start screen, you could just use open shell and restore the Win 7 menu, lightest of the modern windows, trust me.
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Yeah but Win 7 was my beloved OS for so so long. I pushed it all the way until it basically ran out of support and said “ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh fine, Windows 10” (Especially being sketched out with the weird issues it had early on in its release)
And weirdly enough I don’t recall ever having driver issues. Sure you had the occasional one, but it was still pretty damn efficient.
I personally never tried Windows 8 so I can’t say much about it.
i never tried Win8 as a daily driver as well, i went straight from 7 to 10 as most people, BUT, from what i tried 8.1 on my older machine and others, it was one of the lightest of the Windows, booted fast even on HDD, and the start screen was easily solvable if you hated it that much, def a daily driver.