Lee Duna@throws_lemy@lemmy.nz

RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components

  • Windows Latest discovered Discord and other Chromium and Electron-based applications with high RAM usage
  • RAM usage spikes from 1GB to 4GB on Discord both in and out of voice chat
www.windowslatest.com/2025/12/07/ram-prices-soar-but-popular-windows-11-apps-are-using-more-ram-due-to-electron-web-components/
Windows LatestRAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web componentsWindows 11 apps like Discord, WhatsApp, and Teams now use 1 to 4GB of RAM because they are web apps and the rising RAM prices make it worse.
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The D Quuuuuill@Quill7513@slrpnk.net

Replying to @⁨rdri@lemmy.world⁩

what’s google got to do with it? this is an article about a product develeped at GitHub (now a microsoft subsidiary) causing problems with Windows and the thumbnail is showing produts from the following companies:

  • facebook
  • discord
  • microsoft
  • microsoft
  • microsoft
  • microsoft

like. look. i hate google. they partner with israel to conduct genocide (don’t use waze, btw, or better yet, don’t use any google products). but this seems like not looking at the whole of how evil all of big tech is just to focus on how evil one company in big tech is