Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers - Engadget

But you’ll need a powerful system with 64GB of RAM to use it.

Microslop thinks that “Clutter free” means “bundled with an always on LLM” 😸

www.engadget.com/2251018/microsoft-announces-project-zenith-clutter-free-windows-experience/

The goal, really, is to cut the crud out of Windows to create a more Linux-like experience.

but

for powerful developer hardware with 64GB of RAM and gobs of memory bandwidth.

???

Why do developers need 64GB+ RAM on their computers? Maybe I’m biased as a Ruby on Rails web application developer but I’m happily squeaking by on just 8GB RAM. Maybe they’re developing with the memory-hungry VS Code?

I thought it was the gamers who needed tons of RAM.

Visual Studio, VS Code, WSL2, docker containers, SQL Server + SSMS, MS Teams, …

Usually all at the same time. Not everyone is doing just web dev.

Teams, Visual Studio, VS Code are trash, they leak memory like no other

WSL2 is hilarious, just run Linux/UNIX?

SQL Server and SSMS are trash

I run Docker quite a bit but if you’re actually writing the containers efficiently it shouldn’t be sucking down ~64GB of RAM. But I’ve also seen how people shovel things like Java, log rotation, etc. into those containers because they act like it’s a 1994 VPS.