Post #4477221

2026-08-10 04:19 UTC

Windows 11 built-in weather app eats more than 1.2 GB of memory just to tell you if it is going to rain or hot today. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type: curl wttr.in curl wttr.in/city_name_here curl wttr.in/nyc curl wttr.in/moon curl wttr.in/london https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/09/windows-11s-weather-app-uses-5x-the-ram-of-macos-weather-and-it-still-shows-ads/

Replies (11)

@cooldev487@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 05:04

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Since curl is available on windows as well, I think a fair comparison would be to check against desktop weather applications available on operating systems running linux. For instance, on my GNU Guix machine running GNOME, the default weather app just takes around 64MB of ram 😎. But then features like Suggestion for your day, Maps, 3D maps are not available in most of the weather apps on the other side. And frankly i like the Unix approach here ;)

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@PerlPlayer@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 05:04

@nixCraft@mastodon.social it uses so much RAM because it shows ads 🤣

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@KerryMitchell@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 05:08

@nixCraft@mastodon.social KDE has a weather widget - not sure how much memory it uses, but probably not a lot.

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@randulo@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 05:51

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I'd love to find a way to know the air quality PM2.5 and PM10 in my city.

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@hitem@infosec.exchange 2026-08-10 06:06

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Intresting, my windows weatherapp only uses 200mb ram and lill network connection

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@gael_rostang@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 06:11

@nixCraft@mastodon.social while BSD users look at their window

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@mocm@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 06:26

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Of course it also works on Android phones, when use a terminal like e.g. termux.

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@phl@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 08:52

@nixCraft@mastodon.social didn't they once also have like a telnet or finger interface? Or was that some other service, I don't remember...

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@pa27@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 10:18

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Who uses the os weather apps anyway - they are all pretty poor. As it wrttr.in -- not a good forecast site, very low accuracy...

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@RocknRoll_Papy@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 11:03

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Dommage que le ridicule de tue pas. On serait depuis bien longtemps débarrassés de Trump, Netanyahu, Poutine et MS/Windows ...

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@Marija_@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 11:31

@nixCraft@mastodon.social We've reached the point where the weather forecast needs more resources than entire operating systems used to.

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