Yeah I’ve had few issues running my sizable Steam Windows games collection in Wine, so it works well, but I have almost 200 games on Steam that run on Linux natively. 
OvermindDL1
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SoreGums
I have 8GB RAM drive that has the temp folder on it.
I have my 8GB dev Ubuntu VM.
I use PrimoCache - Excellent Software Caching Solution to Accelerate Storage to speed up access to the 2TB Mechancial SATA disk. 8GB RAM, 120GB SSD - this is also where I run my VMs from and make sure to use clones when running labs for multi host deployments.
Chrome uses a lot of RAM 
I run 3 Android BigNox.com VMs nealry all the time with 3GB RAM each.
So yeah, total 3,3,3,8,8,8 = 32GB usually in use/reserved 80% of the time. leaves me with 32GB to fire up games without stopping anything. Or spin up a bunch of VMs with zero slowdowns. Right now ProcExp says System has 48GB committed, 35GB Physical.
My current VM lab is running Docker deployments over the Multiple Datacentre scenario. Using https://bsdrp.net/ for the routers to simulate failures and see how things respond.
i7-6820HK @ 3.7GHz 15" 4K Laptop
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AstonJ
I wasn’t going to say VMs 
(The only other thing I can think that would require so much ram is 3D or game dev.)
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mkunikow
- Try to setup all micro service / docker architecture (on JVM)
- JVM (my IntelliJ IDEA eats 4GB alone and assume I want to run some server + DB, chrome browser …)
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KallDrexx
I’m the opposite of you all apparently. Linux on my laptop (mostly used for work), Windows on my home desktop.
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PatNowak
In home: Linux and Windows (Linux is generally for coding, Windows for gaming, but sometimes it’s good to code).
In work: Windows as a main OS, but it uses VM with docker’s image (linux) with elixir
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arpunk
@ChaseGilliam I use FreeBSD for development and production. As for making development easier I use Emacs and alchemist.
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michael_teter
Are any of you Windows guys using a Surface Pro 4? I’m really tempted to move from my Mac to the Surface Pro (primarily for the portability+performance), but it’s hard to imagine doing development without a Unix terminal.
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notriddle
Another mix. I use Linux servers on EC2 and Heroku, but the laptop runs Windows (and I use Windows Subsystem for Linux to test on a server-like environment).
@michael_teter Have I mentioned Bash on Ubuntu on Windows too many times now? That, and buggy support for HiDPI monitors, is what drove me off Linux onto Windows.
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