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"I've been saving for months to get the Corsair Dominator 64GB CL30 kit," one beleagured PC builder wrote on Reddit. "It was about $280 when I looked," said u/RaidriarT, "Fast forward today on PCPartPicker, they want $547 for the same kit? A nearly 100% increase in a couple months?"

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Doesn't Windows 11 in practice require even more memory than Windows 10 to operate with decent performance?

Meanwhile my Linux gaming PC seems to actually use less memory than back when it was a Windows machine.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My work laptop was upgraded to Windows 11 and performance has severely suffered.

As someone who usually uses 3 monitors (sometimes 4) and does GIS, it's an issue.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah. If you've got 4 GB ram, win 11 is going to absolutely skullfuck that machine.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are you using scaling?
On my work laptop dragging a window from one monitor to the next would make them "snag" in between borders as they struggled and stuttered trying to change the scale.
It looked soooo fucking stupid I couldn't believe my eyes

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Many such moments with the PCs at work. I can't wait to retire and never have to deal with anything modern again. What absolute dogshit and slop computers have become.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

I got unreasonably upset the other day when I realized that windows can no longer seem to sort folders by size anymore.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can tell just by the fan noise or monitoring cpu usage. Win 11 uses more cpu regularly.

I’m not sure if it’s bad, because they changed other things too like the start menu, and it’s less responsive.

Single app performance is about the same as 10.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The city is buying me like 15 grand in new software licenses this year, but I can't convince them to spend another 2 grand on a new fucking computer because mine is "supposed" to be good for 2 more years.