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Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?
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#42Finally bailed Windows this year after a lifetime of MSVC, couldn't be happier with the decision. I'm actually kind of grateful for Windows 11 being so impossibly shit and forcing so many people to finally make the switch! Now I use Arch, btw.
I recently moved from many many years on Windows to full time on Linux for my bare metal embedded development, largely because of ST Micro's good Linux support with their tools.
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#43Not sure this covers popular mixes, eg WSL or considers AI clients. My IDE is Windows (VSCode or Cursor); but I'm also using ChatGPT in the browser and various Linux command line tools (connecting through Windows Terminal to WSL Redhat). There should probably be a fully hybrid option in the poll.
I think I'd count WSL as Linux.
Cloud based development and browser hosted environments would certainly be worth measuring. I imagine the numbers are tiny compared to other platforms.
Arduino IDE probably counts as something with decent numbers. Wokwi also makes for an interesting candidate in that area.
Re: Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?
#44Not sure this covers popular mixes, eg WSL or considers AI clients. My IDE is Windows (VSCode or Cursor); but I'm also using ChatGPT in the browser and various Linux command line tools (connecting through Windows Terminal to WSL Redhat). There should probably be a fully hybrid option in the poll.
Surprised this is apparently the less popular stack. IDE (VS Code) on windows working out of WSL has been so good for a long time now.
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#45have been using linux ever since i got my first personal computer.
our customers all run linux in production too, so it's very easy and natural to develop and test the software in its usual environment (although i wish my laptop had eight times the ram to match).
my ide is linux: https://plan9.io/cm/cs/upe/
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#46I never found anything better than the latest macOS machines. I ran ubuntu for years and then switched back to mac just because I don't have the time to tinker and fiddle with stuff in Linux that just randomly makes the computer run hot, or a monitor to not work, or fonts looking awful. MacOS is just the sweet spot of great desktop + great unix-style devbox.
UX' been degrading on MacOS for ages.
On top of that I've been locked out of my machine and Apple ID and they just kept sending me emails that in some weeks they were going to reset my password, and they sent me those emails for 2 months before I got access to my apple id and machine again, proof[1].
They just kept not obliging the "2 weeks" (which is already mad when I've given you my secret password and I've verified my email and phone already).
And they did not respect the two weeks 3 times in a row!
That is beyond disgusting and Apple has never got a single $ from me since, I only own a MBP I use on the move because a client has sent me an M3 Max with 48 GBs so it made no sense to at least not use it.
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#47Linux.
I retired the last Windows machine last year.
Firefox on Linux, though, is not working very well. It keeps hanging during long typing inputs. No CPU or disk usage, just stuck. And it uses so much memory that the OOM killer sometimes kills it.
I was never a Linux fanatic. It's just that I considered an operating system with ads unacceptable. I rather liked Windows 7.
Re: Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?
#48I never found anything better than the latest macOS machines. I ran ubuntu for years and then switched back to mac just because I don't have the time to tinker and fiddle with stuff in Linux that just randomly makes the computer run hot, or a monitor to not work, or fonts looking awful. MacOS is just the sweet spot of great desktop + great unix-style devbox.
>I never found anything better than the latest macOS machines.
Me too, but Tahoe is hideous. I hope they revert back to something sensible, or I'm going to move to Linux full time.
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#4990% MAC, 10% Debian
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#50Linux subsystem (debian) on an arm Chromebook. It Just Works.