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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
I’ve worked on large C++ applications and it’s worth having a beefy machine. Each source file can be compiled in parallel so you save time by having a ton of CPU cores and memory.
Replying to @0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Yeah for most projects the only time you need a workstation-class machine is to cut down on compile times. Every time you make a change and run you have to compile; a process you do possibly hundreds of times per day benefits immensely from even being just 1-2 seconds faster
It’s also useful if you have a lot of unit tests that can be run in parallel.