Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

That's what the OS VMM subsystem provides... abstraction and management of the memory hierarchy to decide what RAM to use and what RAM regions gets discarded or swapped to/from disk.

If an OS were built entirely around a single instance of HiPE/BEAM similar to LING, it might be possible. For efficiency of apps, ditch GC where possible and use precise memory allocation. When that's not possible, use thread-local, immutable storage pools of objects like BEAM so GC can be concurrent and parallel. The messiest way is to do it like the JVM and other systems that throw all objects into a single pool and require pausing the world and expensive graph walks to clean up.

Bandwidth and latency are two different things. The latency of handling things in system memory is still pretty different than the latency of handling stuff on SSDs.

I am not on Windows 11 so I can't really tell. And even if I did, I may be in a different situation than yours, we may not be running the same apps so what is shared can be different.

As for the "piggybacking" it is not really piggybacking, it is how shared libraries work (emphasis on the "shared"), aka. DLLs on Windows. For instance, if 2 to processes load "library.dll", it will be only loaded once, and the read-only parts of the library will be shared between the processes and it is one of the big advantages of shared libraries over static linking. A major part of the Weather app bloat comes from the browser engine it comes with, something many apps do today, and it would be reasonable to think that 2 apps using a browser engines have components in common.

Anyway, if you run Process Explorer and check the weather app process, it will tell you which is which.

This, by the way is a big reason why modern apps are often so bloated. The real problem is not just that so many apps are using browser engines or other huge dependency chains, it is that they all ship with their own version instead of using what is available on the system, so you have 10 different browser engines loaded in RAM even though a single one would be enough. Traditional Linux distros do it right, but now we have containerized application that break sharing. I understand the convenience, as you don't have to deal with shared library update that break the app, but the cost in both RAM and storage space is significant.

Bootable media isn't that difficult. You need the right tool. Not sure what's current on Windows; I used Etchdroid recently. And you need a spare USB drive. That's the most annoying part. And you need to download the OS. And then you use the tool to put the OS on the drive.

it's not as dead-pan with an /s

imhho, I prefer the ambiguity, the increased hilarity, the increased mental work of considering whether a statement is in good faith or being sarcastic/sardonic, the opportunity to understand how people can be hurt and the motives of barbs and lashes and how to discern the distress and deeper needs of "violent" people, and eventually the remembered insights on how to better generate boundaries and equanimity

in the way of Buddhist psychology, phenomenological bracketing, non-violent/compassionate communication, Brechtian principles, deconstruction, clowning, DBT, etc

lol

though I know this doesn't scale to situations without a boundary, where you can get abuse just for existing. I would use /s in a commons that expects a higher standard of good faith/well-being interactions

(does thoroughly confusing or disrespecting people for a jape equate to an abuse? how much of memeing is not just legal but moral? these are rhetorical questions, you are allowed to save your mental labour on this for yourself, self-care is prime, though I hope you all have a appropriate levels of support)

Stuart Lee is my favourite comedian, they are masterful in playing with this

https://youtu.be/5S9QJXa5YP8 - Stewart Lee deals with audience latecomers (Basic Lee)

https://youtu.be/EclpMn-mK5E - Stewart Lee HITS OUT At Audience Behaviour (Basic Lee)

https://youtu.be/NtFJ1HT3gto - Stewart Lee on Stewart Lee fans (Basic Lee)

https://youtu.be/TrkPNwSRxtM - Stewart Lee on his Audience (Content Provider)

shout out to the somewhat similar subtitles use of: (!)

p.s. as an alternative to Windows, I always recommend folk use KDE, and a distro based on Arch btw