I Love Coding on Linux
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I Love Coding on Linux
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Re: I Love Coding on Linux
#2So I like coding in linux too. I absolutely prefer it over anything else; but, lately my ubuntu distro has not been able to wake up from suspend so I force a reboot when I get back to my computer after a prolonged break. And I was pretty intentional about not futzing around with X11 and third-party graphics with this distribution specifically to avoid this kind of thing happening and have a long-term Linux OS.
I also recently got a bluetooth adapter and found out I simply cannot turn on bluetooth. When I was younger, I had more patience to hack around with things until they work exactly as I like, but I'm surprised that I'm still encountering issues like these in 2021 on a desktop-focused OS.
I wish other OSes followed the unix philosophy more. I wish I could separate the windowing manager from the desktop in OS X, and have more extensive customization options over everything. It'd be nice if Windows had as nice of a filesystem organization story as any linux distro.
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#3I bought a laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled and had an amazing experience for the first month.
Then one day the computer would no longer boot. I had to manually tinker to revert to older version and it booted again, but now 50% time microphone didn't work.
Then one day I installed mysql, and had to do some crazy brute force experimentation to be able to run a local copy of our db.
I accept it's possible the hardware vendor messed up the setup, and someone with greater skills than me could have worked around these issues more productively whilst benefitting from greater flexibility and customisation in other areas.
I will stick to MacBooks from now onwards. I don't have the time to deal with all this hassle.
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#4I bought a laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled and had an amazing experience for the first month. Then one day the computer would no longer boot. I had to manually tinker to revert to older version and it booted again, but now 50% time microphone didn't work. Then one day I installed mysql, and had to do some crazy brute force experimentation to be able to run a local copy of our db. I accept it's possible the hardware v…
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#5I also started on Linux without knowing how to program, but simply having that accessibility and ability meant that I had the option of quicker ways for doing batch things. I would agree with the author that Linux can be a gateway to programming.
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#6I think the author wasn't discussing types of individual use cases like hardware or Ubuntu problems, but if Coding On Linux is unfortunately synonymous with such issues I can see how some might be put off.
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#7I also love coding on Linux, but there are shortcomings. Not enough to make me prefer Windows, but enough to make me wish for something better.
Generally, Windows has better GUI-based tools. The big one being debuggers, I really miss debugging in Visual Studio (C++). But more generally, Windows tends to have a better selection of IDEs, database editors, version control GUIs, etc...
I love command lines and text editors, maybe that's the reason why I prefer Linux, but sometimes, GUIs are useful.
I don't know how the experience on OSX is. It never struck me as a particularly developer friendly platform but I may be wrong. It has a proper Unix shell, so it shouldn't be that bad.
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#8Been coding on ubuntu for the last 10 years and just moved to m1 air.
I miss gnome but not much else, and definitely not tweaking everything from the console by using obscure commands found on google
I love the macos "just works" mantra and while i'm still getting adjusted to it and there are definitely some quirks I don't like, I think I'm being more productive on mac for just not needing to mess with random things breaking when ubuntu gets updated
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#9I bought a laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled and had an amazing experience for the first month. Then one day the computer would no longer boot. I had to manually tinker to revert to older version and it booted again, but now 50% time microphone didn't work. Then one day I installed mysql, and had to do some crazy brute force experimentation to be able to run a local copy of our db. I accept it's possible the hardware v…
At some point I had similar issues with every windows machine I ever used :) Macs do benefit a lot from single vendor for software and hardware
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#10Sure if everything that one cares about are POSIX CLI applications and daemons.