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Re:Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a deve... by nextos on Saturday September 01, 2018 @09:42PM (#17895013)
Any, in principle. Minimal also means RAM-friendly. I can boot into X and open a terminal with less than 256 MB.

Obviously if you add Firefox, you will need around 2 GB to run comfortably.

And then a lot depends on what you develop for.

NixOS is also a bit more disk intensive than other distros due to the way libraries are linked. But it's nothing too excessive.

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