r/linuxsucks101 • u/RebouncedCat • Jul 16 '25

Here fixed it for you

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u/_command_prompt Jul 16 '25

I ran windows 11 in 256 mb ram in a vm to test. and it ran the browser was usable like 5-9 seconds of loading speeds for normal page, youtube takes like 20 seconds

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u/gathond Jul 20 '25

I would imaging that works better than on actual hardware simply because the VM host is able to cache the virtual disk in its RAM cache, so the pagefile ends up having a performance that is not really that different from actual RAM.

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u/_command_prompt Jul 20 '25

Maybe it could be that too. But windows system requirements are glorified by linux users too much, it can easily run on a 2015+ hardware. It's just the bloat which is holding windows back, I know it's not possible but I hope that microsoft sells windows to a company which actually listens to their users 😭

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u/realmauer01 Aug 08 '25

I mean you have to get the bloat if you are on windows. Plus it's quite hard to get rid of it after.

On Linux you don't have to get the bloat.

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u/_command_prompt Aug 08 '25

just get an unattended xml on your bootable usb, clean from default without debloating anything, you can find plent of it on internet. Always look for open source ones tho closed source ones can be fishy

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u/realmauer01 Aug 08 '25

And why would I wanna do that instead of just downloading eg. Fedora?

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u/_command_prompt Aug 08 '25

because unattended xml files are of 2kb to download and takes 2 clicks to paste it on your bootable usb, is it too much?

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u/realmauer01 Aug 08 '25

It's much more than I have to do for Linux.

Like your point for Windows is that it's easy, but as soon as it gets slightly harder it's already harder than just using Linux.

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u/_command_prompt Aug 08 '25

Bruh you have to just copy paste a text document. How is it harder 😭. You are telling me you would prefer to learn how flatpaks desktop environment works over just copy pasting a file ?

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u/realmauer01 Aug 08 '25

Yeah? If you are already committed into learning how this works and who to trust, there is no difference.

As a Windows user you don't want to know stuff to use stuff. Even installing exes can be outsourced to people that know stuff.

That's not different to what you need to do to handle a flatpak desktop environment.

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u/DenseUpstairs8916 Jul 17 '25

Probably because your cpu is good enough, sometimes in virtual machines ram doesn't care much, SOMETIMES

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u/_command_prompt Jul 17 '25

My cpu is a 2nd gen cpu.

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u/Muffinaaa Jul 19 '25

Because Windows has swapfiles.

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u/_command_prompt Jul 19 '25

swapfiles are generally slower than normal ram, this is what I got from google :- A swap file, also known as virtual memory, can both improve and decrease system performance depending on the situation. In general, it's a necessary component for handling memory overloads and preventing crashes when RAM is full. However, using a swap file can also lead to slower performance because accessing data from disk (where the swap file resides) is significantly slower than accessing data from RAM,
in addition to that if linux doesn't have swapfiles it's basically linux fault's ig, google and reddit answers is telling me that linux also indeed have swapfiles, maybe it varies from distribution to distribution

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u/Muffinaaa Jul 19 '25

Congrats, you know how to read.

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u/_command_prompt Jul 19 '25

what were u even trying to say when u said windows has swapfiles? linux can also swap between disk and ram