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WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing


WhatsApp for Windows is a slow, RAM-hungry web wrapper. With Microsoft committed to WinUI, there's no excuse not to build a native app.

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