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Linux desktop environment runs fine with 4GB.
by vetinari 6y ago
Linux desktop environment runs fine with 4GB.
- ekianjo 6y agoGood luck compiling large sources on 4gb
- vetinari 6y agoSince when compiling large sources is a desktop environment? There are projects that you cannot link if you have under 32 GB; but that is not enough to say that desktop environment you use while compiling is unusable under 32 GB.
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- anthk 6y ago2GB of RAM user here, done that with clang as it uses far less memory than GCC.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoI mean really how many people are recompiling their entire code base every single day? Is their make/build environment so bad that they can't trust incremental compiles? I'm getting along just fine on my 8GB laptop. I know some people work with big datasets and video and such but holy cow. Most of us are probably just writing code for a browser/backend/library/test and not pushing around terabytes of data.
- anthk 6y agoMaybe these people never heard of ccache.
- NullPrefix 6y agoCan confirm, my VMs default to 4GB of memory and run just fine.
- Zardoz84 6y agoLinux desktop environment runs fine with 2GB
- gspr 6y agoI think the people who claim that 16 GB isn't enough are insane, but it should be said: at 4 GB it does become a bit problematic to both keep browsers with a bunch of tabs open and do other things smoothly. If we keep modern website hogs out of the picture, I completely agree with you. I tally about 500-1000 MB doing my job – if I can close the browsers that I do admittedly need to read documentation.
- matwood 6y ago> I think the people who claim that 16 GB isn't enough are insane The problem is containers. Some development workflows appear to require running a container for every piece of software needed, and that adds up (and feels incredibly wasteful). None of my development workflow requires containers locally, so I get by just fine with 16gb.
- gspr 6y agoI wonder when the pendulum will swing back and people will stop this insanity. I can already picture the buzzwords people will invent to describe "apps running on the OS itself".
- UweSchmidt 6y agoThat would require people to clean up. Sometimes I squint at the installation requirements and then head over to hub.docker.com. I think it will get worse (i.e. more layers on top) before it gets better.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoYeah when you see "install this docker" OR "follow this 10,000 line install and compile guide" and then have to explain to your boss what you've been up to today.
- dmytrish 6y ago"A bare-OS application" sounds almost as cool as "bare-metal".
- stjohnswarts 6y agoYeah but throw in firefox or chrome and some electron apps and your processor will be crying and your memory starting to overflow.