Ask HN: Best laptop/computer, OS, IDE/text editor for development? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Best laptop/computer, OS, IDE/text editor for development?

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Post by gcb0 » Tue, Sep 17, 2013, 1:23 AM UTC

X4 wrote: post #16

gcb0 wrote: post #3

Anything cheap from Asus or hp. Debian. Check online if the model you want run Linux fine. Vim and then a bunch of scripts to suit your project. Build. Collaboration. Etc.

Avoid HP, they suck unless you buy their Premium models which again might have driver problems with Linux

all big brands are like that for windows PC. either you pay 3/4 of a mac price, or you get crap.

lenovo, HP, dell...

that's why the 1st option is asus or some other chinese/korean medium brand.

Re: Ask HN: Best laptop/computer, OS, IDE/text editor for development?

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Post by ulisesrmzroche » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 8:28 PM UTC

threeseed wrote: post #5

Most developers you see around will be using OSX. It just works and many UNIX apps have nice GUI wrappers/installers. You can pickup the older 17inch MacBook Pro off eBay which are fantastic, cheap developer machines. Plus if you are doing any web development then at some point you will need Photoshop/Illustrator. As for IDE I personally use Sublime or Vim.

If you had to pick, sublime vs vim?

Re: Ask HN: Best laptop/computer, OS, IDE/text editor for development?

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Post by jyu » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 2:46 AM UTC

ulisesrmzroche wrote: post #22

threeseed wrote: post #5

Most developers you see around will be using OSX. It just works and many UNIX apps have nice GUI wrappers/installers. You can pickup the older 17inch MacBook Pro off eBay which are fantastic, cheap developer machines. Plus if you are doing any web development then at some point you will need Photoshop/Illustrator. As for IDE I personally use Sublime or Vim.

If you had to pick, sublime vs vim?

vim works on any Linux server you need to ssh into. It will probably work for any new upcoming languages unless the programming paradigm changes drastically.