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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/
Replying to @Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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.
???
Replying to @schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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.
Replying to @undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch
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.
Replying to @undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch
This is on my work PC, I can’t just switch there (:
For .NET development Visual Studio and Rider are the only decent options, everything else is “trash”. Teams is the company communication tool (besides Outlook).
And we run SQL Servers in Azure, PostgreSQL would cost the same (but I’d love to switch to it myself).
You don’t need 64 GB of RAM, I was happy with 48 GB too, but the headroom is nice. 32 GB would be borderline for my work though, especially as I often have two heavy backend services open (2x Visual Studio) plus a Python project for automated tests (VS Code).
VS has an option that I think was called Launch With, or something like that, so you can run two services together.
Aspire also let’s you do this more easily.