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.