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Re: I Love Coding on Linux

#11
None of this has anything to do with Linux and could better be phrased as “a Unixlike environment”.

Better yet, it could be phrased as “I like using the command shell and it's many utilities.”, for even non-Unixlike environments have such shells and utilities, from what I head.

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

#12
Nowadays, I mainly run Linux in a VM - being it WSL2 on Windows, or a plain old Ubuntu VM on macOS.

I do so because of the Linux ecosystem, not the operating system. For instance, the package managers are way better than anything that macOS and Windows currently offer, and Docker is nice for local development.

I really don’t care about the operating system itself. I just need a nice UNIX-like experience, and Linux seems to offer the best one.

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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post #7

I 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 edito…

OSX is still miles behind windows when it comes to debugging.

I dislike windows with a passion (having had to code on it for ~5 years was torture), but I'm with you: debugging with Visual Studio was the best I've ever had (and I've coded on OSX, Windows, Linux, and other stranger things).

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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post #7

I 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 edito…

I am neither a C++ developer nor a Windows user but as an IntelliJ user just wondering if you have tried CLion?

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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Not the best article for Linux lovers but probably good for people that have very little idea about linux. I recently had to edit a lot of videos. With a couple of scripts in bash using FFMPEG I did a ton of work, denoise, watermark, add a titles according to the file name, trim. All this could have been done in OSx or windows but the «common» users of those OS have little contact with the command line.

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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post #3

I 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…

You just described my daily experience with OSX until I decided to toss it and switch to Linux.

Never going back.

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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post #2

So 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…

Honestly, it's weird that Ubuntu has the reputation that it does. I still conceive of it as a "user-friendly" distro in the back of my mind, but my experience is that it constantly finds new and interesting ways to break. Compare that to Arch, which was a PITA to setup once, but since I have, I've had one minor thing break on an AUR package and that's it. But Arch has the reputation as the one that breaks on updates.

My experience is definitely contrary to my conception of, and the reputation of these distros.

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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So 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…

For the bluetooth adapter, you might need a distro with a newer kernel. I recently put an Intel AX200 wifi+BT combo card in an old laptop and couldn't get it working in Debian 10, but it works perfectly out of the box with Pop!_OS 20.10.

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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So 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…

>>ubuntu distro has not been able to wake up from suspend

Yes, this has been bugging me too. At work, I recently upgraded to a Dell Precision running Ubuntu 20.04 and this has been happening quite frequently (a bit less since a firmware upgrade). Strangely this was never an issue on my previous Dell Latitude running the same.

Re: I Love Coding on Linux

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post #2

So 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…

Possible avenue of investigation from my experience years ago, it was Light Locker. Across multiple installs.
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