Someone Tried to Use Windows 10 with Just 192MB RAM, and Yes, It Works

Linux is often described as the better way to go for older computers, as there are so many distributions that only require modest hardware specifications, but this doesn’t necessarily mean Windows 10 isn’t a good option.

And someone has just conducted an experiment to determine just how low Windows 10 can get in terms of RAM resources, with Microsoft’s operating system installed on a virtual machine whose resources have been gradually reduced to determine Windows 10’s reliability.

Sakura Nøri on Twitter started with 512MB RAM, which is half the minimum requirements to run Windows 10, and everything worked perfectly in a VirtualBox virtual machine, only to discover that with 192MB RAM, everything runs flawlessly.
Of course, flawlessly doesn’t mean snappy, so the operating system itself feels extremely slow with such a reduced amount of RAM, which means pretty much everything takes more than a few se... (read more)