I am really surprised that people voted android/ios as your primary device. What type of work do you do?
Poll: What is your primary operating system
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Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
I highly doubt this. Not even tablets will run on top of browsers. Developers will never give up a real operating system. You just can't develop on consumer devices like the iPad; these are designed for consumers, they come with many limitations to make the consumer's experience easy and smooth, but at the cost of hackability.
"Developers will never give up a real operating system." I always hesitate to use the word never. Things can change very rapidly. What developers need now may not be anything like what we need in 5 years. But more importantly, what a "real operating system" is will probably change in the next 5 years.
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Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#73You should replace Linux/Unix by Linux and add a fourth option "Other Unix-like OS" or "Other *nix". It would be more clear since both OSX and Linux are Unix-like OSes. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Unix_hist...
Then I guess Chrome OS is a Unix-like too. So it would be Unix-like or Windows. Eh, and other. EDIT: I don't agree with your classification. Sorry, Monday morning before my first coffee.
When I posted this there was only 3 options: OS X, Windows, Linux/Unix
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#74I run windows, but always run a Linux VM in which I do all of my dev work, and have an OS X laptop which would be a linux laptop, but Logic/Final Cut Pro keep it that way. Right tool for the right job, IMO.
Any particular reason you have a Windows host + linux VM instead of the other way around ? Personal experience has been Linux hosts + Windows VM performs better than the other way around.
I virtualize Linux under Windows too. My primary reason is gaming. I can use Linux without any hardware acceleration. My dev environment is entirely virtual and there are advantages to being able to throw it on a thumb drive and carry it around. Or I can be staying with a friend for a week and setup my ideal working environment on their computer in a few commands. Another advantage is it's much smaller than a Windows VM so I can store more Linux VM's/snapshots on my puny SSD.
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#75I've been running various flavours of GNU/Linux on my laptop for a couple of years now, with Arch being the most recent one. I find it perfectly adequate for an IDE-less, Vim-centric coding which takes a significant majority of my time spent in front of a keyboard.
I wonder what are experiences of members of the HN community who run Linux on their MacBooks, especially in case of a development-oriented environment. Could you share your opinions about such a setup? Is it worth the price of the machine?
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#76So it's true, Microsoft is dying: http://paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right, but whatever directions things go towards, do you really think that developers will use "browsers" as the operating system? Look at photographers. Despite all the consumer level digital cameras that have flooded the market, professional photographers (and even hobbyists) still buy the more expensive (and more complicated) cameras that a consumer would probably never buy.
Looking at the direction Windows 8 is making or what HP tried with WebOS. Where the browser starts and the OS begins is starting to become very fuzzy. Some people use to cling to assembly instead of using C. Now days it's rare to find someone who will use Assembly over C.
Assembly to C is not the same thing as Unix to Chrome.
Your argument would work if, say, people start writing operating systems in Python.
Another important thing to realize: there's a big difference between the OS and the GUI. The GUI might very well be implemented on top of "web" technologies, but that's not enough to say that the OS is the browser.
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#78The day is coming when Chrome, Firefox, Safari will be the poll options.
"The day is coming when Chrome, Firefox, Safari will be the poll options."
I am astonished. I wouldn't trust anything from Google any more. They aim at control over our private data. Absolutely unacceptable for everyone, but especially for developers, if you ask me.
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#79I've been using Windows pretty much since version 3.1 (though will some time on OS/2 as well) as my primary OS. I have, of course, used Linux, though mostly for servers and not a full-time primary OS. I also have a Chromebook running Chrome OS. Recently, I switched jobs and my team uses Macs so over the last few months my primary work OS is now Mac OS X, while I still use Windows at home. One thing I have discovered…
I would just like to add that there is a valid reason why Linux or the *BSDs are superior to Windows or OS X - they are Free. As in Speech. And I'm sad this doesn't even warrant a mention.
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#80Every day, I start up a computer running OS X. Then, I proceed to fire up virtual machines for two Linux distributions, Windows XP, and Windows 7. I occasionally play around with a headless system that I have running FreeBSD. Then I may power up my iPod Touch to test recent changes to my mobile site. I also do a significant quantity of work while I am logged into a remote debian server via ssh. I doubt that I am the…
I use something like: "OS X is my host operating system. I develop on Linux."
Depending on how you use it, OS X can feel a lot like Linux. If you're spending most of your time in Terminal and Emacs, usually ssh'ed into a server, then your technical answer will diverge pretty far from your "real" or metaphysical answer.