Sure there are such cases but hardly in 2004 you had a single SW that took 2 or 3 GB. Remember that in 2004 many PCs still had 128MB of RAM and higher end setups come with 256MB or 512MB. Even today most programs that consumes a lot of RAM are treaded (think to chromium and derivatives), so the supposed advantage of 64bit is still not existent. 64bit makes really sense only in few cases, like AV transcoding, compression, number crunchings simulation and alike. There the more parallel math has some advantages.
Better mind your own business and discuss original issue. Don't act like you are so wise than others.
Anybody tried 10 or 11 Superlite versions by Ghost Spectre ? I tested both on VMware and they are only occupying 1.5 Gb ram after installation. Thinking to install 11 superlite on hdd directly.
I build my own modified versions and know what I can remove without running into update problems down the line. I'd have a hard time using a build built by someone else because its not going to be exactly what I want. Even LTSC has stuff that I wont ever use and end up removing and is missing stuff that I have to manually add. The only real viable solution would be for MS to create a special build for enthusiasts that gives you an opt in menu while installing fresh allowing you add only what you want and need. If they did this, I think MS would be surprised what they could get away with charging for it.
I used linux for 8 months and its very friendly these days compared to 10 years ago. Most of my games runs pretty well, some ran better on linux then it did on windows lol. I am still thinking to switch from windows 11 to endevour os. These days i dont game much and the games i play are running great on linux
Would you look at that. 1.4 GB RAM. On real machine. Untouched Windows 11 source, after a quick appx removal + services toggle. With defender, store, windows update working, removed apps restorable, but most importantly, 100% safe. DIY or bust.
I installed Ghost Spectre superlite 11 22h2 directly on hdd yesterday. My pc is Asus B350 Plus mobo, AMD Ryzen 2400g Cpu and 24 Gb ram. Graphics quality on 11 is not that good compared to 10 on my hardware. I reverted back to 10 21h2 September update.
I don't use Linux because my career was based on un-borking Windows so there never was a reason to learn but I am 100% certain that I would have no issue with it if I gave it a go. That said, if I installed it on my mom's laptop, she would be calling me 15 times a day asking me how to do literally everything. I know this because she has been using Windows forever and still calls me at least a few times a month for help. User friendly is an absolutely meaningless description of Linux because that 100% depends on the user.
Frankly, the more normal the user is the easier is Linux to use. What would supposed to be the problem for an average user? Where is supposed to differ the user experience using say Vivaldi for Linux over Vivaldi for Windows? Not like Vivaldi? There is even the ugly Edge for Linux nowadays. Perhaps Windows driver support improved a lot in the last 10 years. But 10 years ago the comparison was even more favorable for linux. Using windows used to be a nightmare of driver search, while Linux worked out of the box, even booting it temporarily from a pendrive. Desktop Linux, on the contrary, may be a no go for professionals. If you need Autocad, or a custom SW made for attorneys, doctors, engineers, content creators and so on, may have, poor or no replacement SW at all under Linux. Also who is not very skilled using windows, is less tied to Windows conventions, and has less problem to learn a different OS. So please let the stereotypes aside, and test the actual reaction of your mom (or everyone else) not what you think will happen, in theory. It's a wrong theory.
Then again. His mom would be left wondering what the 'actual f**k' is this?? on Win 11. Swings and roundabouts.