Windows 11 default desktop Chat/Teams widgets are Edge web views that eat up hundreds of MB of memory: https://archive.is/pyvEO
Edge also preloads in the background even if it's not the default browser: https://archive.md/AAjz4
Both links also detail how to disable these "features."
That's software design now. EVERYTHING that is business/productivity software is becoming a web-page then when you get the "app" version, it's also a web page with a fancy window. To think I used to complain about Windows 95 eating up RAM, and back then it was extremely expensive to add more.
I'm becoming an old codger though, as if that wasn't always the case with me and computers. I don't want "widgets." I don't want all my program icons on the bottom in the middle. I like words on the contents of the taskbar so I can see what's in it before I click on it. So, basically I want Windows 95. Or what I actually have gone to using, KDE Plasma. I stopped dual booting a few months ago when I bought a mini-PC for gaming on my TV. No reason to go back now really, and I don't have to deal with getting nagged to restart for updates constantly, or fake security crap, etc.
Absolutely.
In the race to the bottom to allow billions of pajeet programmers to substitute for quality Euro & Asian engineers, we got applications running webpages inside of virtual machines inside of webpages inside of virtual machines.
Imagine if we could calculate the waste caused by refusing to pay an American a decent salary and choosing to offload that cost onto the hundreds of millions of PCs out there instead.
My work laptop i5 (quad core) is absolutely crushed by all the garbage. Still on Win10 for work, but I paid $20 to upgrade the RAM to 16 GB myself (added a 2nd 8 GB stick) a while back, I don't know how people survive with 8. Splunkd is probably the worst.
I don't want to open word docs in Teams thank you, open in app, Are you sure you want to open in app?
Software engineering is the only type of "engineering" where it's acceptable for engineers to make a shittier product just because it saves them time.
You can still have words on the taskbar (at least in w10, idk if they removed it in W11). Thats more user friendly, and you can pop in the W95 theme if you feel nostalgic. good move away from Wdohs.
I like putting programs in the taskbar that I frequently open/close, because you can quick access them with <windows>-# .
shit, i never knew that.
Me either. great tech tip bois.