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Microsoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baseline
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this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2026
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I got 16 gb on my W11 laptop, and I'm regularly bouncing off the 13 gb point where swap/ compression/ whatever kicks in and shit gets slow, doing relatively benign shit like browsing the web, YouTube and Gmail open, and vscode running working on some python shit. On 8 gb I'd probably have to use my phone for everything except vscode to get it to fit. It's not the lightest possible workload, but it shouldn't be slamming swap so regularly.
Prefetch / Superfetch may represent a portion of that usage.