8GB should be fine for Windows 11. However, the OS is so bloated that it simply isn't.

Microsoft should fix that.

Having the drivers installed is fine and, quite frankly, good; for exactly the reason you point out. When they aren't being used they are only taking up disk space. And that is OK, nobody is particularly upset with Windows' disk space.

It is the RAM usage, telemetry, and other running processes that just don't need to be running. These are the things that make a Windows setup so bloated. One doesn't need to reach out and tell MS every time you open the start menu, one doesn't need Candy Crush and One Drive ads appearing in the OS. There is no good way to turn all that off. That is just using resources and making the OS worse for users.

They should make good single player and smaller-scope games again. Their massive-budget, live-service games have proven unsustainable.

I would look into getting a different contractor.

A drain that is just open at the bottom is terrifying. And while accidents do happen, refusing to acknowledge this is wrong means he is likely hiding other issues you didn't happen to notice.

I have no clue who would sign up for the war on the aggressor's side at this point. The loss rate is crazy. There just is no gain to be had.

Note yours is only 70€ less because it is missing the storage and power supply prices.

Mentioning this as it actually makes your point stronger.

“AAAAAAH! THEY’RE ON THE CUSP OF ATTACKING!”

Then they should stop threatening to attack Taiwan. Threats of attack make people think you might attack.

Fuck yeah!

Yeah, GOG is at least offering DRM-free games. That gives them one big plus over Steam and is why I maintain a library on both.

On the other hand, I can't name a single thing Epic does better than Steam and GOG.

This all tracks pretty well. The ability to learn is a big, big signal.

I have a strong feeling they won't be removing the spying, AI everywhere, ads, and bloatware. Microsoft views those as positives.

Yep. Intel sat on their asses for a decade pushing quad cores one has to pay extra to even overclock.

Then AMD implements chiplets, comes out with affordable 6, 8, 12, and 16 core desktop processors with unlocked multipliers, hyperthreading built into almost every model, and strong performance. All of this while also not sucking down power like Intel's chips still do.

Intel cached in their lead by not investing in themselves and instead pushing the same tired crap year after year onto consumers.

It was possible to skip Vista and go straight from XP to 7. You could even use the same PC.

It was possible to skip 8 and go straight from 7 to 10. You could even use the same PC.

This time around, Microsoft is forcing Windows 11 as the only option, forcing people to throw away their machines, and it is backfiring on them. People are rejecting it and the competition (Linux) has never been as good as it is today.

The executive also noted that 500 million PCs don't meet Windows 11's system requirements

So much unnecessary e-waste. I never want to hear about how 'green' or 'sustainable' Microsoft is again.

Yeah, it's fucking ridiculous that a corporate account has a user-upsell ad/button one MUST hit to access the basic settings for the program.

That's what they said a month ago, then they decided that 'remove copilot from notepad' meant 'rename copilot in notepad'.

No we didn't win. This is Google making it harder to install the programs you want, rather than the programs Google wants you to have.

Github has not even one-nine of uptime. Normally you want three-nines or four-nines, they have ZERO-nines. A server in your basement is worlds more reliable.

The Steam Deck is the better product anyway. Got one recently and damn is it good.

Three-week-old fuel is brand new. I don't even fill up my car that often.

No issue here.

The Steam data is pretty noisy. We got a big spike two months ago and now the anomaly went away. The import part is to pay attention to the trend, something that is quite the oppose of "falls hard":