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Poll: What is your primary operating system
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Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#102I could not leave Windows for photoshop and Excel. Now that the photoshop runs smoothly in VM and Calc is comparable, made a switch to ubuntu.
OSX also has both of those, although I'm not sure if you have VB support in osx, but I'm guessing that if you're using calc you don't need it anyway. If this set up works for you that's great of course!
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I work for multiple clients. After messing a few years with "I need a postgres for this one, a mysql for this one and sometimes, things just break on the live server because Mac OS X is almost linuxlike", I switched to a fully virtualized development stack and haven't looked back since. So the answer is not metaphysical, but true.
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
My way of thinking is that being free does not really to me, a lambda user, make it superior but otherwise just add pros and cons. By using mostly Windows I trade the inconvenient and risks of non-free with other advantages. It is a informed choice. RMS may hate me though :)
Are you able to explain the term "lambda user"?
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#105I don't see value for money in osx other than ui awesomeness ...
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is clearly the best of both worlds.
Aren't the macbooks over-priced ? Personally I'd rather buy a laptop and a tablet (something like the transformer) rather than get something that costs twice as much or offers lower return on hardware for the same price. Disclaimer: I am from a parallel programming background, so I am biased towards performance rather than form factor or battery life.
> Aren't the macbooks over-priced ?
No? I mean is a Panasonic Toughbook C1 "overpriced"? It'll always depend on what you value and what your qualitative and quantitative metrics are.
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#107I don't see value for money in osx other than ui awesomeness ...
It's the only unix that you can run Microsoft office on.
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#108Happy Linux user since 1992. Sometimes I also use Windows in VM for customers.
I'd rather say Linux hacker then, Linux in 1992 was pretty basic.
Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system
#109I spend blocks of hours every day in front of a dev machine, but aggregating all the hours I spend in private or inbetween work, including weekends and all using my phone or the ipad, iOS is my actual primary OS.