I’m looking for a distro recommendation for development needs.

I have a 16gb ram pc and using docker and k3s to run my code, and multiple intellijs on a linux vmware vm (my host is windows) which eats a lot of ram. I tried ubuntu, Debian and xubuntu.

Most of them didn’t handle my ram consumptions, xubuntu is good but I’d like to know if there’s a better one for my needs.

  • _cnt0@lemmy.villa-straylight.social
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    For the kind of workload you’re describing, 16GB of RAM was on the low end like 5 years ago. Your number one priority should be getting more RAM. For what you’re doing vmware is at least better than HyperV, and depending on what people are doing with their machines there can be pros and cons favoring Windows, linux, OSX, … in your case Windows is factually the worst choice. When working as a developer with linux native technologies, use linux. If you insist on your kids playing with your work machine (interesting choice), and they “need” Windows, then dual boot. Other than that I’d second another users advice to go with fedora (easy to use, up to date, no bullshit). But do yourself a favor, go bare metal, and get more RAM.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I need to get ram, but I’m afraid my psu will explode lmao, I have 3060ti razen 5 2600 and 16 gb ddr4 on 550 psu haha

      This is not my main work computer more like an hobby, I have a computer from my work. And beside we have git so it’s OK that the kids playing around with the pc

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        RAM doesn’t consume much electricity. The two power hogs in a modern system are the CPU and the GPU—everything else uses <20W, usually <10W. 3060Ti is 200W, and your CPU is 65W. Unless you’ve got a lot more stuff in that case, you’re not close to hitting your power supply’s limit even if you overclock a bit.