• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    According to Windows Latest, the high memory consumption is due to the fact that Weather is not a fully native Windows application. Instead, it is essentially an MSN Weather web app built on Microsoft’s WebView2 framework. Task Manager shows multiple Chromium-based subprocesses running simultaneously, which contributes to the unusually high RAM usage.

    So many “apps” these days are just three web pages dressed up in a trenchcoat, eating up your vastly overpriced RAM. It wasn’t a good practice even before the prices went up, but now we really need resource-efficient software.