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  • RAM usage is RAM usage, and besides the allocation still being awful and you probably having less RAM available in a heavy task, this means substantial power consumption, that costs money.

    Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Even if it’s just the OS keeping apps on memory for faster launches. If you do need heavy RAM for a task your OS is clever enough to reshuffle things.

    Used RAM does use more electricity but that is so neglible it’s a non-issue and no argument.

    Of my 32 GB at least 26 GB are constantly in use.




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    1 year ago

    I still have it from time to time that Windows has to install a driver for something benign like a thumb drive. Not always, though. And yes, the driver is fixed to the physical port. Using a different port reinstalls the same driver again.

    Experienced this exact behavior on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11.