Fucking PHONES had more RAM. It was so fucking stupid. And despite their arguments, it was proven time and time again 8GB was not enough.
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JDPoZ@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Completely laughable. Literally had 16 GB of DDR3-1600 for my 2600K from 2011 that I handed down to a kid nephew for their first PC to tinker with. Hell, my local NAS has more than that…
Mercuri@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
We use windows PCs at work as software engineers now, but when I was training I used a MacBook Pro M1 with 16GB of RAM and that thing was incredibly performant.
I know it in vogue to shit in Apple, but they build the hardware and the software and they’re incredibly efficient at what they do and I don’t think I ever saw the beachball loading icon thing.
Now the prices they charge to upgrade the RAM is something I can get behind shitting on.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I used Windows, Mac and Linux in the past year.
It’s not Mac that’s fast, it’s Windows that sucks hard.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Same.
it’s almost like people make choices to suit their needs and there isn’t a single solution for everybody.
I wonder what the industry standard is for developers? Genuinely. I’ve heard it’s Max, but my company is all in on Microsoft, not really heard of companies developing on Linux. Which isn’t to say Linux doesn’t have its place, but I’m aware this place is insanely biased towards Linux.
OhYeah@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Every place I’ve been at had developers using windows machines and then ssh into a linux environment
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Funny that you chose two games that run natively on Linux.
kalleboo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Stack Overflow developer survey (which has it’s bias towards people who use Stack Overflow)… says 47% use Windows, 32% use Mac, and uh, Linux is split up by distro so it’s hard to make sense of the numbers but Ubuntu alone is at 27%.
qqq@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I almost never use Windows, but aren’t commands and variables in PowerShell case insensitive?
HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
My current Linux machine needed exactly zero config post install, and even stuff like the fingerprint reader is working, I’m using it instead of passwords in a terminal.
I can also play games pretty well, it’s usually smoother and less buggy than on Windows.
I feel Linux is not a compromise for me anymore, Windows is fast becoming one though.
independantiste@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The chip and OS won’t do shit when your ram is saturated by electron apps taking 800MB each. Maybe MacOS behaves better under very high memory pressure than windows does, but it doesn’t mean it’s okay to rip off consumers
Sh0ckw4ve@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Haha no MacOs is not better performing under very high memory pressure. Rip me working on a macbook air.
I have to make sure not to run too many things at once…
independantiste@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Now that I think of it yeah, my work mac simply shows a popup telling me to kill an app. It just doesn’t deal with high mem pressure lol
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can use Linux with RAM compression to have the same kind of economy that MacOS does.
Just nobody bothers.
JDPoZ@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Apple does have a lot of vertical integration which allows first party stuff to function well and they work closely with a lot of their premium 3rd party software partners, but you try running an actual RAM hungry process like a local LLM model, for example, and all but the highest end latest edition MacBook Pro WILL shit the bed.