Stream Hits 42 million Concurrent Users

[JRPGfan]

SvennoJ said:

JRPGfan said:

Do people actually do that?

I turn off all unnecessary applications and services, and kill background programs (when not in use).
That is the only reason I can idle and have windows11 take up like 3.4gb of ram and like ~110 process threads. 
You let everything just run... before you know it, all your memory is eaten up by bloatware and unnecessary programs.

It does it automatically after you install Steam, you have to turn auto start off and most people don't bother.

3.4GB? groan, I used to have XP running with less than 200 MB of RAM in use. Currently 10 GB in use which is mostly Firefox :/ (But got 32GB ram so no issue)

I only have 16gb on this system... So with like this page open, and like 3 youtube video tabs,.... I'm at like 5,6gb used.
So even with you using 10 GB, you still have more to "spend" than I do.

I just made it a habit to turn everything unnecessary off.
I feel exactly the same way (its too big, uses too much ram).

Heck I remember there were competitions about "slim" versions of windows 98/xp,
and people could get windows to take up less than 300mb (the install size on your HDD).   

Now windows 11 is like ~50GB on your SSD.
Is windows 50-100 times better than it used to be?  

I have another system with a 7800xt, and I'm tempted to install Mint/CachyOS/SteamOS sometimes.... but never seem to get around to it.
I heard it is so much less system demanding that even with the overhead of using translation/emulation software to run app's (like steam's proton),
it can sometimes beat windows in games performance (esp. on amd gpu systems).  I think the change just scares me too much, windows "works".