I am continuing to work on my new (for me) Dell Inspiron 3670. I have now upgraded the RAM to 32 GB, replacing the 2 8 GB DIMMs with 2 new 16 GB DIMMs. I ordered the memory from Crucial, which has an “Upgrade my computer” button on its home page. With this you can look up exactly what DRAM and SSD upgrades are apppropriate for your particular system. Physically installing the new DIMMs was a little tricky simply because of where the memory slots are placed on the motherboard, but I managed. Since I am now at the maximum possible memory I will not have to do this again, unless one of DIMMs fails.

I also edited the hosts file on the Windows side of my system to include my other systems. The only issue is that on Windows 10 and 11 that file is C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, while on Linux it is simply /etc/hosts, which is much easier to remember. I did the edits by simply by running Notepad as administrator. This is functionally equivalent to sudo nano /etc/hosts on a Linux system.

Over on the Ubuntu Linux side I instlled Visual Studio Code, which I had forgotten to do before. It works just fine: I am using it right now to write this post.