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

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Post by n8henrie »

mellowagain wrote: post #29

Crystal Linux. It is a arch based OS which means you get to take advantage of the huge amount of packages in the AUR with the added benefit of being easy to install and sensible defaults. It comes with amethyst (`ame`) as AUR helper pre-installed, which is also in my opinion the best AUR helper out right now (and it's written in Rust!). Automatic BTRFS snapshots before package upgrades have saved my butt once already…

https://getcryst.al/site is a little light on details -- is there something that talks about the philosophy of crystal Linux, or whatever makes it special / unique? If you're happy with your DE on Arch, is there any reason to consider switching rather than just installing amethyst? (EDIT: forgot to mention I'm already on BTRFS root with snapper for auto snapshots.)

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

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Post by in9 »

mellowagain wrote: post #29

Crystal Linux. It is a arch based OS which means you get to take advantage of the huge amount of packages in the AUR with the added benefit of being easy to install and sensible defaults. It comes with amethyst (`ame`) as AUR helper pre-installed, which is also in my opinion the best AUR helper out right now (and it's written in Rust!). Automatic BTRFS snapshots before package upgrades have saved my butt once already…

I use manjaro with my on DWM build (very small changes and a few usefull patches). I'm not liking it because for some reason pamac (AUR helper) cli behaves differently from the UI. So now and them, when I need to update a package, the cli wont do it because of some signature issues, and the UI can handle it. So now and then I go back to cinnamon because I can't lauch pamac correctly from the terminal from DWM. Very weird setup going on.

Crystal Linux did catch my attention :D

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

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Post by akulbe »

ksaj wrote: post #17
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 is…

Actually, you're not stuck here, if you run into issues. You have both:

--export

--import

options available to you for your WSL instances. You can get your configuration just so, then export it to a tarball that you can use for a baseline for later, that you can import it later.

Or you can use Store apps to handle that operation for you. I'm thinking of the subscription-based app called "Raft WSL" that handles that for you.

"…I wouldn't consider WSL stable." - It's not perfect, but it's sufficient to get me off of being a Mac user for 15+ years. Other than the polish of iTerm2, it gave me everything I had on Mac, without all the Mac-isms that I didn't like.

Windows Terminal has proven to work very well for my dev-on-Windows needs.

One of the BIGGEST factors in making this setup my choice is that Microsoft actually works on stuff, AND listens to their customers.

Do you get everything you want? Certainly not.

Do you get feedback when you report stuff? Very often, yes. Even if it's just to say "Yep, we know about this, we're working on it."

Where, when you'd report a bug to Apple - you get nothing. Ever.

Microsoft actually seems to CARE about making theirs the premier dev platform, where Apple only seems to care about new shiny, gives lip service to open source, and gives no responses to feedback.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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

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Post by runjake »

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.

Since at least 2005[1] part-time and 2012-ish full-time: https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Mar-05.html

1. I saw him at a conference in the mid-2000s using a Mac.

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

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

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.

When Gnome is so bad, even its creators won't dogfood it. :) /s
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