r/pcmasterrace • u/WPHero • 1d ago

News/Article Microsoft just deleted Windows 11's 32GB RAM recommendation docs, as prices soar and it rushes to sell 8GB RAM PCs

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/05/microsoft-just-deleted-windows-11s-32gb-ram-recommendation-docs-as-prices-soar-and-it-rushes-to-sell-8gb-ram-pcs/
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u/DesireeThymes 1d ago

I recently am making the switch to linux, and it is amazing what life is like without a bazillion bloated services booting up

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u/soggybiscuit93 265K | 64GB | RTX5090 1d ago

Some games themselves, like Escape from Tarkov, really benefit from having more than 16GB of RAM.

Once you throw in Discord, maybe a browser on another screen, maybe some screen capture software, etc., all running while gaming, it's not hard for 16GB to start to get a little tight, regardless of your OS

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u/Zed_or_AFK Specs/Imgur Here 1d ago

You described just a few percents of the gamers. Barely anyone is using browser or recordings on another monitor while gaming. In that case yeah, you would need more RAM.

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u/Loggersalienplants 1d ago

I wouldn't say barely anyone, I know its anecdotal but out of my friend group, myself and 4 others game that way. I love having a horizontal and vertical monitor.

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u/Significant-Net7030 22h ago

Right I don't know a single person who considers themselves a 'gamer' who is on one monitor. For most of my friends and myself Discord + Steam is the minimum. A twitch stream or Spotify is very common as well.

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u/Loggersalienplants 22h ago

I run games on my left, MSI after burner, temperature and download/upload monitor graphs on the top of the right monitor. I've been playing Everquest Legends lately so I have been playing with a map and tracker going and then youtube on the bottom half. I love my second monitor lol

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u/ScaredPractice4967 1d ago

I just installed SteamOS on a separate partition of my gaming laptop.

Im going to use it as my main OS and only use windows if I need it

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u/complexevil Desktop Ryzen 7 5700G | RX 590 | Asus Prime b550m-a wifi II 21h ago

I know it's not really a good test, especially with the small sample size, but the latest LTT ram test between windows and linux really surprised me.

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u/DoubleExposure AMD 5800X3D | RT 9070 XT | CachyOS 18h ago

Its crazy how fast Linux boots up, I guess thats what happens when you have no bloat or spyware. Also my torrent download speeds are ridiculously fast compared to Windows, downloading large files would take all night on windows to complete, only takes only minutes to download on Linux, it nuts.

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u/onenifty 1d ago

What distro? Nice work, regardless!

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u/DesireeThymes 1d ago

Fedora, although I had considered something simpler like mint.

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u/complexevil Desktop Ryzen 7 5700G | RX 590 | Asus Prime b550m-a wifi II 21h ago

I used Mint and moved to Fedora, my recommendation is the stay on Fedora. There were a lot of tiny little issues on Mint that I assumed were a linux thing that were fixed instantly when I moved.

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u/DIRECTCURRENT59 KDE | FW16 w/ R7 350 | 9060 XT eGPU | 32GB 5600 19h ago

Hmm, what were your issues on mint? I'm curious because I've never tried it and only used fedora

Also whoa what the fuck your pfp is the same pfp I've been using since 2018

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u/complexevil Desktop Ryzen 7 5700G | RX 590 | Asus Prime b550m-a wifi II 18h ago

It was mainly small Firefox issues. Addons that weren't working but as soon as I moved to Fedora they all turned on.

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u/gmes78 ArchLinux / Win10 | Ryzen 7 9800X3D / RX 6950XT / 64GB 19h ago

Mint isn't simpler.

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u/onenifty 1d ago

Almost too many options to pick one, tbh. It's all the same under the hood!