Windows 11 bloat proves too much for Microsoft's new 8GB Surface Laptop

[trparky]

Yes, really.

Having drivers installed for different hardware does not cause RAM usage to increase. Unless those drivers are loaded, they do not take memory.

Anybody familiar with how operating systems knows that......

Correct.

Notice drivers and not how many of them are running and a lot of them are stopped. Stopped drivers aren't loaded and taking memory.