Ask HN: What is your Dev OS in 2022?

#1

Post by mikewang » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 1:04 AM UTC

I have been some bad times this year on my dev machines. First was ubuntu 21.04 which was out of date that I have no idea. I tried to update it later manually and it went bad. And another was my centos which use py3.6 as system python and I can not update it because I need new version for some work. These are bad feelings that I got this year. I just want a long live dev OS.

what is your opotion?

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Post by PaulHoule » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 1:10 AM UTC

Windows 10

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Post by xavier_ » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 1:12 AM UTC

Buy a Mac

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Post by jareds » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 1:15 AM UTC

Windows 10 with WSL2.

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Post by slater » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 1:21 AM UTC

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.apple.com/macbook-air-m2/

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Post by fbrncci » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 1:30 AM UTC

Windows 10 + WSL2

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Post by josephcsible » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 1:32 AM UTC

Kubuntu 22.04.

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Post by GartzenDeHaes » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 1:44 AM UTC

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.

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Post by sergiotapia » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 3:46 AM UTC

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.

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Post by GianFabien » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 3:47 AM UTC

I abandoned Ubuntu several years ago. I'm finding Debian 11.5 (Bullseye) robust and reliable. Python is v3.9.2. which new enough for my purposes. You can of course, download and install v3.10 or v3.11 and configure pyenv.

I would love to use a Mac, but I'm wary of Apple's consumer oriented locking down of features. When I worked for some large corps, was issued with Windows laptops - compared to Debian it was a nightmare.