Tech Lead/Team Lead. Senior WebDev.
Intermediate Grade on Computer Systems-
High Grade on Web Application Development-
MBA (+Marketing+HHRR).
Studied a bit of law, economics and design
Location
Spain
Education
Higher Level Education Certificate on Web Application Development
Well, does your zenbook have an SSD for storage? It makes an abysmal difference, past week I changed an HDD from a old HP of a client and it simpli gived it a second life.
Also... check that RAM consumption, I always use chrome as main browser along VS Code, DBeaver, parcel bundler with some react, angular or whatever app running with the watch on for the hot reloading and I didn't get that much.
Also try Elementary OS, it's significantly lighter than Ubuntu so this can help. Also I noticed that apps are performing a bit worse when installed through snap.
I'm just trying WSL 2 (windows subsystem for linux) those days, at this point it seems to be nice so I probably switch to windows as main OS along WSL 2 for coding instead on dual boot, at the end you'll get better drivers on windows and better files indexing, also not having to reboot to use some non linux compatible Apps is a must.
As a last option, unscrew that zenbook, look at the RAM it have and pick another one to get 12 or 16Gb if needed
A Senior Developer working mostly with PHP and JavaScript, with a bit of Python thrown in for good measure, all on Linux. My tooling is simple, it's GitLab and JetBrains where possible.
It's got a 256GB SSD as part of it. RAM is soldered so cannot be upgraded.
RAM usage is high at the moment because I am trying something out on GitLab, and their GDK is a memory abuser (node alone using 2.2GB). I've only got 10 chromium tabs open, which is a huge reduction on normal.
I do need to back my files up to my NAS and go through a reinstall. Contemplating going straight Debian, as that's what Ubuntu is under the hood, but doesn't rely on Snap which is depressingly slow (and I use JetBrains IDEs which are snap packages now).
I'm waiting for Lenovo Ubuntu laptops to come to the UK to see what specs can be had. Hoping for a 32GB RAM one as I don't really want to pay £3k for a MacBook Pro which I might not even like.
Tech Lead/Team Lead. Senior WebDev.
Intermediate Grade on Computer Systems-
High Grade on Web Application Development-
MBA (+Marketing+HHRR).
Studied a bit of law, economics and design
Location
Spain
Education
Higher Level Education Certificate on Web Application Development
I had a MacBook Pro 13 touchbar 2017 and I got tired of this bullshit on less than a year, better pick a workstation. Check the MSI GE66 Raider, it comes with an i7 10750H, 32Gb RAM and 1Tb SSD (and an RTX2070 8Gb which is not important for coding but... Well you can try machine learning without issues with that), on Amazon Spain it's around 1.799€ if it fits into you.
I've myself a desktop with an R5 3600X, 32Gb RAM and an RX 5700 XT so my expectations of a laptop are sightly lower than if i was with laptop only.
I'm used to jetbrains IDEs too but I'm trying to switch to VS Code, I found a plugin to use same keymappings than jetbrains so it is making the job easier
A Senior Developer working mostly with PHP and JavaScript, with a bit of Python thrown in for good measure, all on Linux. My tooling is simple, it's GitLab and JetBrains where possible.
I had an MSI GS70 stealth for years before going Asus Zenbook. It was great for the most part, but wouldn't always power off. Had some other divers issues too.
I know Lenovo laptops do a pretty good job with Linux, so that's likely my next stop. I'd go Dell, but they top out at 16GB RAM for the Ubuntu XPS devices, and are only available in 13" variants. I have one as my spare for work and it's mostly good, but wants to report errors after every boot.
Tech Lead/Team Lead. Senior WebDev.
Intermediate Grade on Computer Systems-
High Grade on Web Application Development-
MBA (+Marketing+HHRR).
Studied a bit of law, economics and design
Location
Spain
Education
Higher Level Education Certificate on Web Application Development
The never powering off thing happened to me but was some kinda misconfiguration on the OS or distro related, I had FerenOS when it wasn't that Frankenstein and it was solved after clean install of Elementary. If you want to avoid most issues on linux try to find some AMD laptop with a 4800H or better, then upgrade the RAM by your own if can't find any 32Gb model. If it comes with AMD GPU better. Don't know the reason exactly but each time i pick an intel I've some issue and on AMD is more stable 🤷 at least it's my experience with that
A Senior Developer working mostly with PHP and JavaScript, with a bit of Python thrown in for good measure, all on Linux. My tooling is simple, it's GitLab and JetBrains where possible.
Tech Lead/Team Lead. Senior WebDev.
Intermediate Grade on Computer Systems-
High Grade on Web Application Development-
MBA (+Marketing+HHRR).
Studied a bit of law, economics and design
Location
Spain
Education
Higher Level Education Certificate on Web Application Development
Well, does your zenbook have an SSD for storage? It makes an abysmal difference, past week I changed an HDD from a old HP of a client and it simpli gived it a second life.
Also... check that RAM consumption, I always use chrome as main browser along VS Code, DBeaver, parcel bundler with some react, angular or whatever app running with the watch on for the hot reloading and I didn't get that much.
Also try Elementary OS, it's significantly lighter than Ubuntu so this can help. Also I noticed that apps are performing a bit worse when installed through snap.
I'm just trying WSL 2 (windows subsystem for linux) those days, at this point it seems to be nice so I probably switch to windows as main OS along WSL 2 for coding instead on dual boot, at the end you'll get better drivers on windows and better files indexing, also not having to reboot to use some non linux compatible Apps is a must.
As a last option, unscrew that zenbook, look at the RAM it have and pick another one to get 12 or 16Gb if needed
It's got a 256GB SSD as part of it. RAM is soldered so cannot be upgraded.
RAM usage is high at the moment because I am trying something out on GitLab, and their GDK is a memory abuser (node alone using 2.2GB). I've only got 10 chromium tabs open, which is a huge reduction on normal.
I do need to back my files up to my NAS and go through a reinstall. Contemplating going straight Debian, as that's what Ubuntu is under the hood, but doesn't rely on Snap which is depressingly slow (and I use JetBrains IDEs which are snap packages now).
I'm waiting for Lenovo Ubuntu laptops to come to the UK to see what specs can be had. Hoping for a 32GB RAM one as I don't really want to pay £3k for a MacBook Pro which I might not even like.
I had a MacBook Pro 13 touchbar 2017 and I got tired of this bullshit on less than a year, better pick a workstation. Check the MSI GE66 Raider, it comes with an i7 10750H, 32Gb RAM and 1Tb SSD (and an RTX2070 8Gb which is not important for coding but... Well you can try machine learning without issues with that), on Amazon Spain it's around 1.799€ if it fits into you.
I've myself a desktop with an R5 3600X, 32Gb RAM and an RX 5700 XT so my expectations of a laptop are sightly lower than if i was with laptop only.
I'm used to jetbrains IDEs too but I'm trying to switch to VS Code, I found a plugin to use same keymappings than jetbrains so it is making the job easier
I had an MSI GS70 stealth for years before going Asus Zenbook. It was great for the most part, but wouldn't always power off. Had some other divers issues too.
I know Lenovo laptops do a pretty good job with Linux, so that's likely my next stop. I'd go Dell, but they top out at 16GB RAM for the Ubuntu XPS devices, and are only available in 13" variants. I have one as my spare for work and it's mostly good, but wants to report errors after every boot.
The never powering off thing happened to me but was some kinda misconfiguration on the OS or distro related, I had FerenOS when it wasn't that Frankenstein and it was solved after clean install of Elementary. If you want to avoid most issues on linux try to find some AMD laptop with a 4800H or better, then upgrade the RAM by your own if can't find any 32Gb model. If it comes with AMD GPU better. Don't know the reason exactly but each time i pick an intel I've some issue and on AMD is more stable 🤷 at least it's my experience with that
Thanks. I'll look at that and see what I can find. Anything to let me work on stuff I want to in my free time is good for me.
I found that which seems a good deal if you want to check it out: amzn.to/30985bI
the link is from amazon spain but sure you'll be able to find the same on UK :)
Hope it helps