[nickjj]

I run WSL 2 here with Docker Desktop and it's really good. It has been since WSL 2 was available.

As for 16GB of memory, funny enough I just put out a video today around the topic of "is 16GB of RAM enough for web development?" over at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQS7XCgUPmc

The video demos running everything I run in my day to day plus more just to see how far 16GB of RAM really goes. It's all running on a Windows 10 workstation I put together in 2014 which has a weak CPU and video card from today's standards, yet everything runs really smoothly.

I never broke 13GB of memory used even with running VMs separate from Docker and heavy duty video editing tools, all while recording a 1080p video at the same time.

For folks who want an M1 and are capped at 16gb of memory, I would imagine the memory usage experience would be similar to that Windows based video. Good enough for most web development, even with a moderate amount of media creation and ops work.