Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice
by TheRealDunkirk on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @09:05AM
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I have a 2019 MBP with 32GB of RAM. I bought it thinking that I would be running a Windows VM under Parallels, on which I would then let my company install the execrable Microsoft "mobile iron" access control. (You know, the one where they can wipe the machine remotely.) But then they changed so that even machines with this enabled cannot access the company resources on Azure. It must be one of their own machines. (So what's the freaking point?) Anyway, if it would have worked out, that's definitely a use case for more than 16.
Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice
by GrinningFool on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @02:36PM
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> no issue.
Could this be because they don't understand how much faster it can be -- the slowness is an accepted cost of doing work?
I've recently run virtualbox/vagrant/docker on an air from ~3 years ago, and it's painfully slow compared to my 3-yo system with 32GB RAM. It works perfectly fine, but it's slow.
> I think people with 32GB laptops
That may be true. It may also be true that people with 8GB laptops vastly underestimate the benefit of having more memory available for development workloads.
And we used to run Vmware with Windows (on Linux) or Linux (on Windows) in 2005 just fine, on laptops with a couple GB at best...
Dozens of devs I know in a company I work with have 8GB Macs (and 2-3 years old at that), and run Vagrant and Docker with no issue. And those are mostly Airs with shared GPU too...
I think people with 32GB laptops hugely overestimate how many other devs also are on 32GB...