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Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by jsherer »

Just recently picked up a Lenovo Thinkpad and immediately installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on it. It's quite unfortunate that the bar is set so low with Linux laptops that the thing I enjoyed most is that everything worked out of the box, including wifi, suspend/hibernate, and external monitors. Hopefully this trend continues with more laptop brands so more people can enjoy the freedom in choosing an OS that works best for them without having to worry about whether or not standard features work without difficulty.

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by FlailFast »

zserge wrote: post #16

Thinkpad x120e + Gentoo is the only development machine I run (still looking for a newer 12" thinkpad to replace this one). There is also ubuntu installed in the chroot (for android firmware builds) and a few docker containers with various OSes. In theory I can survive with any OS/platform, since my primary tools are tmux+vim+zsh. I use them for android development (Java, Kotlin), for web (JavaScript, Golang), for em…

Nice! I'm trying the ChromeOS browser + terminal experiment myself. Just bought a 2015 Chromebook Pixel LS and outside the local storage issue it's a glorious machine.

In terms of terminal use, I thought a chroot would be a little heavy handed and I didn't want to get rid of Google's verified boot, so I bootstrapped Linuxbrew and gcc using this guide: https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/wiki/Chromebook-Instal...

Given that I use vim + bash + go + ruby / python + js + tmux...well, everything seems to work. And it's easily the fastest web browser I've ever used. I tried installing Gentoo Prefix but couldn't get it up and running...think that would be better than Linuxbrew, but for now this seems to suffice. If I run into any roadblocks I'll probably wind up doing the whole crouton/chroot thing, but for now I'm a happy camper.

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by m-i-l »

Home: Ubuntu 14.04 for both desktop and HTPC (MythTV). Both are custom builds. Became exclusively Linux at home around 12 years ago, when I built a cheap PC for £160, then had to pay £200 for a Windows XP licence, but couldn't install it because the CD was covered in holograms which the ultra-cheap CD drive couldn't read.

Work: Desktop is Windows 7. Believe it or not I'm one of a handful piloting Windows 7 - most are still on Windows XP.

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by wglb »

Linux, moving to FreeBSD, OpenBSD on routers, Windows for some legacy products, OS X.

Toolchain mostly lisp, bit of ruby, C, python

(My Windows NT box finally died)

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by Mister_Snuggles »

Work is MacOS X and Windows 7 on a Retina MacBook Pro. Windows is used for PeopleTools, but everything else (SQL Developer, NetBeans, etc) runs in MacOS.

Home is Mac OS X on a 4-year-old MacBook Pro (which, after replacing the HDD with an SSD, feels a lot faster than you might expect) or Kubuntu 14.10 on a ThinkPad x131e (working Linux, cheap, and rugged were the main requirements when I bought that). Personal projects generally involve Python or Java, so a text editor and NetBeans are my tools of choice.

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by QuantumRoar »

OpenSuse for work (not my choice), FreeBSD on a private server, OS X for the laptop, pfSense (based on FreeBSD) on a firewall, Raspbian for the little things, and I just ordered a NAS that will be running FreeNAS (also based on FreeBSD).

Vim, Git, Intel compiler, Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Mathematica.

Python for scripting, Haskell for analytical mathematical stuff, Fortran for high performance, Mathematica for fiddling around and sanity checks.

A total of 224 Xeon cores and 5TB of main memory.

For my private hacking I just use a laptop and whatever language seems to fit the purpose. Also, I'm about to buy a desktop computer and I was thinking of using Arch for that.

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by LukeB_UK »

Work: Linux Mint 17.1 on a Samsung NP350V5C using Sublime Text 3 (and various plugins) developing Javascript and PHP

Home laptop: Linux Mint 17.1 on an Asus UL30A (it was free) using Sublime Text 3 (and various plugins) developing Javascript and Node.js

Home PC: Dual boot windows 8.1/Linux Mint 17.1 on a custom tower. Windows is for playing games and developing unity games, linux is the same as on home laptop

Edit: I also use GIT across all of them

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