A Tuxedo minipc (AMD). This one.
It’s got 32GB of RAM, but I’m wondering what I’m to do with that amount of RAM. The only thing I could think of was run other distributions as Linux Mint in a virtual machine as I want to take a look at some.
Any other suggestions?
It hasn’t got a dedicated graphics card, just the integrated one. I don’t need much.
Hopefully OnlyOffice will perform nicely on it.
What I need lots of ram for is analysing large data sets.
I really does help with running VM’s too… I can run several VM’s plus the host without any perfermance hit.
It will also help with copying large files… because it will use spare ram to buffer the I/O.
If you run a number of processes simultaneously, it will help prevent swapping.
and, most importantly
as the years go by it will help protect your machine from becoming inadequate for the growing size of software apps. … my 64Gb machine is 15 years old and it still copes very well today even though it is only slow DDR3 ram.
So, your purchase was a good choice, not excessive at all.
Run LM Studio and use local AI for development or whatever else you might need it for. With 32GB you should be able to use some pretty good models.
I bet it will. I tend to favor OnlyOffice for myself. It looks more like MS Office, which I’m used to at work.
Nice!
You could try tmpfs
And here’s a tutorial for web browsing from ram
https://ostechnix.com/how-to-sync-browser-profile-into-tmpfs-ram-in-linux/
I used to participate in SETI@home. You would install an app, and it would download a chunk of data collected by a dish antenna and analyze it for signs of “intelligence”. It has since been shut down but they are encouraging people to “keep crunching for science” in other areas: astronomy, physics, biomedicine, mathematics, and environmental science. You get to pick.
The software is called BOINC. BOINC stands for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. It is an open-source platform developed at the University of California, Berkeley, that enables volunteer computing—where individuals donate unused computing power from their personal devices to support scientific research.