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Heavy prerequisites.... At least 4 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended) At least 1 GB of free disk space (SSD recommended) At least two CPU cores (four cor

by ape4 4y ago

Heavy prerequisites.... At least 4 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended) At least 1 GB of free disk space (SSD recommended) At least two CPU cores (four cores with hyperthreading recommended)

piperswe 4y ago
I don't think any of those are a tall ask for powerusers in 2023
daveoc64 4y ago
Those are all at or below the Windows 11 System Requirements.
paxys 4y ago
How is any of this heavy? Every entry level laptop or desktop sold in the last 5 years (probably longer) will meet these requirements.
dragonwriter 4y ago
1GB of free disk space is trivial, 2 CPU cores and 4GB is the minimum requirement for Windows 11; so its hardly “heavy requirements”, its basically “a relatively recent PC”. Recommended is a bit more onerous, but, 8GB and 4 hyperthreading cores isn’t a lot . I’ve got a two-year-old midrange laptop (other than having a fairly nice dGPU for something not marketed for gaming, but that’s not really really relevant here) and its got 16GB of RAM and 6HT cores.
- fbdab103 4y ago
  >its basically “a relatively recent PC”. I would challenge recent. For a power user who would engage in these features, that feels like at least baseline specs from 10+ years ago. On a larf, I queried "dell 2012 laptop" and came to this review for a Dell XPS 15[0]. Probably a more performant laptop than the average user, but this thing has a quad-core with 8GB ram. [0] https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/dell-xps-15-2012-review https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/dell-xps-15-2012-r...
  - dragonwriter 4y ago
    Sure, it’ll work on more powerful older computers; I’m just saying practically any recent windows PC will work.
temp12192021 4y ago
With those pre-reqs, is there anything Windows Sandbox can do that Sandboxie can't? https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie
- gruez 4y ago
  Hypervisor isolation. Sandboxie works at the kernel level which is a much larger attack surface.
- throwaway689236 4y ago
  Sandboxie is great, didn't know there was a fork.
andix 4y ago
It’s fine to keep using old hardware, but with lower specs than that, windows 10/11 is completely unusable anyway. With such specs you probably want to use some lightweight Linux distribution, if you don’t enjoy looking at the hourglass-cursor most of your workday…
HeavyFeather 4y ago
Are you from 2010? What computer doesn’t have 4GB of ram? My phone has more than that

by ape4 4y ago

Heavy prerequisites.... At least 4 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended) At least 1 GB of free disk space (SSD recommended) At least two CPU cores (four cores with hyperthreading recommended)

piperswe 4y ago

I don't think any of those are a tall ask for powerusers in 2023

daveoc64 4y ago

Those are all at or below the Windows 11 System Requirements.

paxys 4y ago

How is any of this heavy? Every entry level laptop or desktop sold in the last 5 years (probably longer) will meet these requirements.

dragonwriter 4y ago

1GB of free disk space is trivial, 2 CPU cores and 4GB is the minimum requirement for Windows 11; so its hardly “heavy requirements”, its basically “a relatively recent PC”. Recommended is a bit more onerous, but, 8GB and 4 hyperthreading cores isn’t a lot . I’ve got a two-year-old midrange laptop (other than having a fairly nice dGPU for something not marketed for gaming, but that’s not really really relevant here) and its got 16GB of RAM and 6HT cores.

fbdab103 4y ago
>its basically “a relatively recent PC”. I would challenge recent. For a power user who would engage in these features, that feels like at least baseline specs from 10+ years ago. On a larf, I queried "dell 2012 laptop" and came to this review for a Dell XPS 15[0]. Probably a more performant laptop than the average user, but this thing has a quad-core with 8GB ram. [0] https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/dell-xps-15-2012-review https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/dell-xps-15-2012-r...
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  Sure, it’ll work on more powerful older computers; I’m just saying practically any recent windows PC will work.

temp12192021 4y ago

With those pre-reqs, is there anything Windows Sandbox can do that Sandboxie can't? https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie

gruez 4y ago
Hypervisor isolation. Sandboxie works at the kernel level which is a much larger attack surface.
throwaway689236 4y ago
Sandboxie is great, didn't know there was a fork.

andix 4y ago

It’s fine to keep using old hardware, but with lower specs than that, windows 10/11 is completely unusable anyway. With such specs you probably want to use some lightweight Linux distribution, if you don’t enjoy looking at the hourglass-cursor most of your workday…

HeavyFeather 4y ago

Are you from 2010? What computer doesn’t have 4GB of ram? My phone has more than that