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Ask HN: What is your Dev OS in 2022?

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Re: Ask HN: What is your Dev OS in 2022?

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Post by shrimp_emoji »

GartzenDeHaes wrote: post #8
slater wrote: post #5

You'll get a hundred different answers, but yeah, just get a Mac. Yesyes, it'll cost more upfront, yesyes it has its own quirks, yesyes Apple bad boo hiss etc. etc., but still - to your last point: a long-lived dev OS, combined with nigh-untouchably-good hardware integration (note: integration , not 'the fastest thing nvidia/amd pushed out of the factory last week')? Get a Mac. M2 Macbook Air is amazing: https://www.…

I saw Miguel de Icaza, the founder of GNOME and GTK creator, using a Mac on a podcast about Terminal.GUI.

Well, of course. That's the DE GNOME copies. ;D

Re: Ask HN: What is your Dev OS in 2022?

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Post by klardotsh »

I personally use a combination of Void and Alpine Linuxes on all of my systems, which I realize is a perhaps far-off-the-beaten-path nerdery option, but I thrive in power user environments that invite me to tinker, and couldn't see myself using much else (short of Gentoo, which I left to reduce my tinker time a bit, or a BSD)

Re: Ask HN: What is your Dev OS in 2022?

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Post by ksaj »

akulbe wrote: post #15

Windows 11 w/WSL 2

What you have running under WSL is more inline with the question, since it is about OSs and not "what virtualization do you use". Although at least it's half an answer if you use Windows as part of your dev stack.

Although I do use it on my laptop, I wouldn't consider WSL stable. If the boot loader or anything involved with the boot process goes kaput, there is nothing you can do but delete it and reinstall. There isn't even a rescue mode, and you can't just fiddle with the partition tables. At least on a physical Linux partition, you should still be able to mount the drive and get to your data, and you have a gazillion rescue options.

Re: Ask HN: What is your Dev OS in 2022?

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Post by ksaj »

sergiotapia wrote: post #9

Moved from an M2 Mac to using a Windows 10 Desktop beefcake PC and use VM Ware Linux Mint 22 cinammon install. Works flawlessly and I have zero patience for linux jerking around so you know it's good. Everything just works out of the box including resolution etc. I have two monitors and it just works. I don't miss Mac at all.

Theoretically you should have an identical experience with VMWare on the Mac. So in that case, I'd just go for the faster machine or the one with better hardware options. Whatever gives you the most options for productivity. Which may very well might be the Windows desktop, but it should "just work" in either place just as well.
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