@AnthonyRKing No I have not seen that “more RAM” configuration. Thanks for sharing that!
I do not use the RPi board much anymore, mostly the occsional install of Zabbix and Unifi controller with manually configured ZRAM.
Unrelated, have you tried other distros on the Raspberry Pi? What’s been your smoothest experience as far as distro and DE is concerned?
There’s an extensive description for ‘More RAM’ in Pi-Apps (under ‘Tools’).
Not really spent much time with anything other than Pi OS on my Pis so far. I tried out Ubuntu but don’t see much reason to switch. VMWare ESXi looks like an interesting one to try out though.
Is it possible to run VMWare ESXi on a Pi?
While not impossible, it’s not a practical or supported solution.
But see:
You can also check Proxmox VE, Docker, QEMU and KVM.
Mind-boggling I know, but it’s not even new. The likes of Network Chuck and Raspberry Tips made videos on this in 2020, but maybe this is the definitive article, complete with a video of installation to a Pi 5.
You can even boot the Pi 5 by USB now (as standard), so you don’t necessarily even need to fiddle with micro-SD cards to try it. [Edit] Actually, I’m reading that maybe you need UEFI firmware to be loaded on a micro-SD, while booting with the ISO on a USB drive, for setup.
It also appears that the available ISO is from 2020, requires a Broadcom account, is labelled as experimental, and allows a 180-day trial period only. [/edit]