Except 8 GB of ram is really more like 3 because Windows uses 5 to do nothing. And then Chrome uses a couple more gigs. And then Lord have mercy if you have outlook.

So that's, like, two programs open and were already running out of memory.

I've just booted a fresh install of Win11 in Azure and it's sitting at 2.8GB with 2GB in the cache. Not all that bad.