Comment on How to Actually Clean Install Windows 11
nostradiel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I would rather go for Linux but when Windows needed I’d go for LTSB/LTSC version, choose this oobe during install, after install run christitustech debloat script, activate through github script and in register turn off auto download/install updates. 1.4GB ram idle usage while having all you need.
but when Windows needed
the irony is that the only reason ever for “Windows needed” is because some obnoxious asshole decided they want to force others to use Windows. There’s literally nothing that Windows can do better. There is only a quasi monopoly and probably bribes to companies to release no builds for other platforms (e.g. for games).
ive heard this for years and i always laugh, “there is nothing windows does that linux doesn’t!” yeah, totally man.
I agree.
I exactly do this. It switches every services to manual and turn off so many notification bloat. After doing this windows never bothers me. Every app , games, hardware like capture card just works on windows.
But i use linux on my laptop because linux is good for browsing and wordprocessing.
havokdj@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That is still comically high. Arch Linux with DWM gets 100 mb, I’ve seen gentoo builds with DWM get as low as 40 mb.
kogasa@programming.dev 11 months ago
Idle RAM usage means literally nothing.
havokdj@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Unless you don’t have a lot of ram and don’t want to spill over into swap?
kogasa@programming.dev 11 months ago
That has nothing to do with idle RAM. If you are swapping while idle, you have HORRIBLY fucked up. RAM usage is (and should be) determined by memory pressure. When idling, there should be none.
Yes. Idle RAM usage means nothing. You need to measure how much it contributes to memory pressure.
No.
Preloading and caching in otherwise wasted space.
vsh@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I had Debian Ubuntu and Void use little over 1 GB in the past
For windows it’s insanely low RAM usage. For me 3-3.5 GB RAM used on idle was the windows standard
nostradiel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Exactly. Every time before I found out about LTSB and these scripts my idle usage wasn’t lower than 3-3.6gb. I went through all those running processes and said myself that there has to be better way. (And boy how I was pissed off when I found out about the telemetry…) It led me to Linux, but sometimes I need to use Windows so I have dual-boot with LTSB.
havokdj@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve never seen windows idle that much from a clean install.
vsh@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Also don’t forget that to reach 40 MB RAM you have to strip your system out of literally everything. Sometimes it makes a miserable user experience.
havokdj@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not really. I can see why you’d think that but you just compile a kernel that supports what you need. A kernel customized for your hardware can be less than half the size of the default kernel, it’s just that it may function ONLY on that hardware.
vsh@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Alright, but how many kernel wizards are out there?