Just a few years ago, an app with almost the same functionality as WhatsApp (though it wouldn’t have video or audio, since that wasn’t feasible back then on dial-up or DSL connections) wouldn’t have used more than 50MB even under heavy use. Nowadays, however, an app with the same goals easily exceeds 1.5GB of RAM.

1.5 GB of RAM for an instant messaging app. It was possible to run the entire Windows XP system plus user applications on 128MB of RAM... 256MB was a luxury.

And for those complete idiots who keep going on and on about how “memory that isn’t used is wasted memory,” I have two things to say to those clowns:

1) There is absolutely no reason to use 1GB of RAM for a task that you can easily handle with just 10MB of RAM. Just because your computer has 32GB of RAM doesn’t mean you have to use all of it just for your application;

2) Your application isn't the only thing running on the user's computer. What happens if the dozens of processes running on the user's computer all have the same idiotic idea of trying to reserve all the computer's memory for themselves?

A native Windows app uses Windows system libraries to handle tasks like communication and rendering, and relies on operating system methods to draw its interface, and so on. Basically, almost everything you saw being used in Windows 7. Whereas in Windows 11, what at first glance appears to be an desktop application is actually a piece of shit built on Electron or another “web container” whose purpose is to make a web page look like a desktop app. It even works, but with horrendous waste of CPU time and RAM.

Finally? I’m tired of seeing apps in Windows 11 that are an integral part of the operating system and should therefore be native, but were built with that total, complete, and absolute shit that is “web apps”. “Web apps” only make sense when you really need independence from the OS to the point of accepting a loss of performance and very bad resource usage. Web apps have absolutely no place on where they would never be used on another operating system.

Yeah, sure. Keep thinking that.

How about you chill out a bit?

Professionals put up with Windows because, despite its problems, it’s a reasonably stable desktop environment where you have a decent guarantee that your really expensive program - built for Windows 2000/Seven - will still work, whereas the Linux desktop is a total mess when it comes to backward compatibility.

But as you’ve probably noticed, that’s changing... And Windows is now becoming another shitshow, so we’ll end up with two shitshows to choose from unless Linux desktop vendors get their act together and stop fighting among themselves.

My guess is that Microsoft’s new developers only know how to build web pages and “web apps” (web pages that try miserably to pretend they’re desktop applications and fail spectacularly), and the developers who actually knew how the Windows kernel works have either retired or passed away. When the last of these “old-timers” is gone, Windows will probably collapse.

Delusional thinking has always existed. Religion, “god-kings” who believe they have a divine right to rule over everything and everyone, and most recently, narcissists who have decided they are women and want to force everyone to agree with them (It's like the people who think they're Napoleon, but now they want to force you to agree that they really are Napoleon).

I believe the biggest problem with this and “AI” is that many people bought into the hype that “AI would always be right about everything,” and so they think it's true when “AI” confirms their delusions.

The second is paid advertising disguised as journalism. After all, the guys who spent hundreds of billions making "AIs" now need to make everyone believe – no matter the cost – that everyone has to buy their services. Think about it, hundreds of billions of dollars are involved in the biggest scam ever created, of course they're going to try to convince you that everyone needs them.

You're so naive... Or so stupid.

That's a big reason why I don't use that crap in the first place. The developers of these modern Javascript frameworks don't care about backward compatibility. And they aren't even competent enough to get it right on the first try or even on subsequent tries, so they have to constantly rewrite critical parts of their software because they are not able to understand what caused the problems in the first place.

Pretty much this. They started to realize they spent too much on tulips, and now, to keep the money coming in, they have to find a way to force everyone to continue believing that buying tulips is the best deal ever conceived by humankind.

In fact the agents simply copied fragments of C compilers from the internet until they ended up with something that (barely) works. I would consider it noteworthy if they only had the specification of what the compiler would have to do and no ready-made compilers to use as examples.

The problem lies with CEOs and the people around them. Most engineers and developers haven't been fooled, but CEOs are seriously vulnerable to accepting absurd ideas if someone “important” (or who can pass themselves off as important) swears that the idea in question will fill the company with money. Right here in my company, every now and then some director stupidly wants to copy the ideas of the “market” (which nowadays boils down to maximizing value for shareholders even if it DESTROYS the company) and no one can convince him otherwise because “the market said so.” I feel like tearing apart every son of a bitch who says “the market wants this” or “the market wants that” as an excuse for really stupid ideas.

When all this hysteria surrounding “AI” ends and people realize they've been deceived into yet another "tulip craze"... the crash will be ugly, very ugly.

The point is that while he is working, he is physically close to his father. So if any problems arise, he can act immediately.