I liked the idea from another article about Whatsapp webview app: if Microsoft itself doesn't invest time and resources to write native apps, who would care to? They themselves set a low standard switching app platforms and writing web wrappers, and it's naive to think this stops at bare Win11 being bloated - it means most other apps would also be created as bloatees. Resource consumptions just explodes, and so does the head of the end user whose brand new PC can't handle basic desk job and work chats.

I got 99 problems and microsoft is all of them, except one.

Almost 300mb to show the weather? Apple should be ashamed.

Even 247MB seems too much for usually checking the weather. Once upon a time, the entire operating system was able to run without any problems on less than 512MB of RAM, including programs, and now you tell me that I need half of it to check the weather? Technology has lost itself along the way...

And yet my script to fetch from an API and display in my bar uses no more than a few megabytes with the bar included...

My OS (Arch, MangoWM+Noctalia) uses about 1.3GB when no apps are running. It even includes a weather widget among other information widgets, like system monitor, all loaded in memory with their corresponding information, and it's all included in that 1.3GB.

Never forget: calendar flyout

It was years ago, but that straw broke this camel’s back