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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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It’s crazy, 8GB on a Windows 10 machine works stellar for basic use, which is wild. I have a 13 year old laptop (admittedly high end when it came out, a pretty crazy model for under 1k USD… but it’s super old now!)
I slapped a (well, used to be) super cheap SSD in it and installed W10 and Pop!_OS. It performs similarity to my more modern machines that have 16 or 32GB of faster RAM when it comes to everyday stuff like web browsing, streaming HD video, and image editing. On Linux AND on Windows 10! Firefox and its forks have zero issue with 10, 20 tabs or more, including another browser window with 1080p video playing.
I can’t speak for the Facebooks and the TikToks and the chromes, since I don’t use any of those.
Caveat, OOSU10 and ClassicShell are on W10, and some other various small tweaks. But it runs totally fine and the laptop came with Windows 8!
I’ll never touch W11, it’s awful.