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.
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.
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
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.
Iirc when I bought the 3060ti the recommendation was 550 or 600 but maybe I’ll try to upgrade
There’s a tendency for manufacturers to overspec power supplies a bit in their suggestions, just in case the person they’re advising turns out to be That Guy who’s overclocking to the max and running a SATA expansion card with ten older spinny-rust HDDs or something like that. They want you to buy something that has plenty of margin so that they won’t be blamed when their piece of the system doesn’t perform well enough when paired with an anemic power supply.
I did my best to find information for everything I intended to put in my current system when I was spec’ing it out back in 2017, so that I could buy as much power supply as I needed without overbuying, and it was surprisingly difficult to get good figures for some stuff. Comspiracy by power supply manufacturers? I doubt it, but I don’t know for sure.