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WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing
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this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2026
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I don't know who is doing the testing, but they don't know what they're doing. 313MB
Look at mr moneybags over here
The screenshot is from my $300 HP Elite Desk 4. It doesn't support Win11, but I installed it anyway.
Oh, you meant Claude. I use the free version to help me write automations and dashboards for Home Assistant. I have never given Anthropic a dime.
You cannot fish in lemmy as it's a website. Thank you for your understanding.
Can I at least get my bait back?
Your setup, with Win11 and Claude is the bait.
Fable is so expensive. I made a Blinko notes desktop app on Opencode last night using Minimax M3 and it would have cost me 3000usd if I was using Fable.
Why Edge? (Still Chrome)
Why Claude?
WhatsApp depends on how much TEAM your PC has and what other software is running in order to change its cache. Maybe the tester/author has a lot of RAM and saw this "huge" usage.
Personally, if I bought 64GB of RAM, by god I'm going to use it!! Why buy lots of RAM and be stingy??
Just because you have RAM to give, doesn't mean an app should use it. An app that is using way more than it typically uses often means the app has lost control in some way (a memory leak). An app that has lost control will usually have performance or other issues.
Apps can reserve RAM without using it. It is totally normal for apps to do this on every modern OS. Linux included. The amount of RAM reserved is not the same as the amount of RAM that app is using. And apps don't have a strangle hold on R being reserved unless that RAM is actually in use. Windows will automatically take reserved RAM away from one app and give it to another app that is out of its reserve space. This is all very normal.
Well, fine, right, I'm not saying I want something to use all 64GB, but I'm not going to be upset if something used a few GB. Chrome OS that way where it'll eat up all avail RAM, hence why so many memes. A lot of applications are written poorly and yes, RAM utilization will grow, but again, if I've got it, in many cases might as well use it.
It's something I've always done. I pick an app. ie: Firefox but then at some point I'll go to the alternative to see if it has something I might have missed. This way I can evaluate it myself rather than rely on someone else's bias. I've been using Edge for about 3 months now, and it really isn't that bad. I'm going to try Brave next.
As I mentioned earlier, I use the free version of Claude to help me with automations and dashboards in Home Assistant. It really is an incredible tool.
I don't know what that means. How much TEAM my PC has? You saw what Edge was using. This PC, which basically is a boy doing a man's job, has 32GB of RAM. It runs all of my 'ARR' apps.
I just don't see the issue with Whatsapp. It runs perfectly fine of my crappy HP I7 7700 PC.
Ohhh my bad, stupid swipe text corrected ram to team I guess...
Edge isn't a bad browser as far as functionality goes, but far from secure. But it's gotta I discovered vertical tabs while at work, so I added that extension in Firefox and now that's native too.
Btw, my PC has 32gb of ram where WhatsApp is using 320MB.
Oh. OK well that's good! Idk, maybe the tester left the PC running really long or just ran a bunch of convos to rack up RAM usage for the article
When I reported my Whatsapp was using 320MB it had been running for a week. The writer is just not that good when it comes to analyzing technology. He wants to trigger outrage, which it seems he has done.