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I bought a MacBook Pro M1 about one and a half years ago, and a week ago I bought a Linux Ryzen laptop, after giving up hope of doing my x86 Linux development o
by runeks 4y ago
I bought a MacBook Pro M1 about one and a half years ago, and a week ago I bought a Linux Ryzen laptop, after giving up hope of doing my x86 Linux development on the MacBook. I’ve followed every guide I could find on emulating x86 Linux on my MacBook M1 without success.
Also, I bought the MacBook with 32GB RAM, and later found out I needed 64GB, and I wasn’t willing to pay the extra price of selling my old MacBook to buy a new one with twice the RAM.
I have been using Macs for work since around 2014, and for me it was a combination of missing x86 Linux emulation, a high price, and lack of flexibility (e.g. adding more RAM or disk space) that made be stop using Macs for work.
- rbanffy 4y ago64 GB is a lot. I wouldn't buy a machine with less than that (Macs tend to last a long time), but, still, wanting to max it out just in case and actually needing it is rare. What are you doing with your computer?
- runeks 4y ago> What are you doing with your computer? I’m writing Haskell. * Transpiling Haskell into JavaScript using GHCJS 8.10.7 requires more than 32GB RAM * haskell-language-server uses about 40% (~26 GB) of my total memory after running for a day or so. Add a couple of REPL sessions and I’m over 32 GB.
- rbanffy 4y agoOuch!
- bombcar 4y agoI would assume virtual machines, as that eats infinite RAM.
- rbanffy 4y agoTrue, but it can still host a handful of beefy VMs.