Windows/Linux side by side.. two large monitors and sharing keyboard and mouse with synergy.
Poll: What OS do you use everyday, or most often?
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#22I find the comments in this thread really show the potential in virtual machines.
Personally, I develop on a macbook and virtualize Windows XP and Linux (Arch Linux). I tend to just use which ever is the native environment for what I'm working with (eg: C on linux, ruby on mac).
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#23I work with my Windows laptop and my Linux workstation side-by-side. I use my laptop for Outlook, company IM, Office documents, and web surfing. I use my workstation for everything else. That gives me a strict division between productivity sucks on the Windows laptop and productive work on the Linux box. When I want to focus, I can sit with the laptop outside my field of view, so I don't see new emails and IMs. If I need to consult html docs while I'm coding, I use Conkeror on my Linux box so I'm not tempted into random surfing. Using Conkeror and Awesome WM on my Linux box makes it very no-nonsense and very conducive to concentration.
Ummm, so, I already voted for Linux since that's where all the work gets done. Should I vote for Windows, too?
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#24I voted twice. I develop on Linux (Ubuntu) running inside VMWare on my Mac.
Yup. I voted three times. My microscope & downstream processing tools use Windows Server 2003, XP Pro x64, XP Pro, Ubuntu, and OS X. MacGyver hacker, here.... and yes, I use them all every day.
When you do a cost-benefit analysis, do you find that it's worth your time to tinker with all that and switch between systems?
That's why companies standardize on a toolchain. By the way, we standardized on Ubuntu at my company. And while the the home computer is my girlfriends Macbook I hardly ever really use it, so I voted once.
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#25I use:
1. Mac OS X - for "normal people" stuff. Web browsing, IM, Twitter, music, movies, foo.
2. Linux (Ubuntu) - so that I can build (3).
3. Haiku (http://haiku-os.org) - because I can.
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#26I voted twice. I develop on Linux (Ubuntu) running inside VMWare on my Mac.
Haha, yah, I voted twice too. I run Linux (Fedora) on VMWare on my Windows box. Windows just runs much better on my poor graphics hardware.
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#27I've two laptops, one with Mac OS X and one with Linux. I use both for development but as a client I prefer Mac OS X that Just Works. It was fun years ago to hack on config files and even to write my own device drivers when it was needed, it was a game with the benefit of learning a lot of stuff, but seriously, I expected Linux to be mature enough after a few years... instead it's the same problems again and again. All my wishes for Linux are instead incarnated by Mac OS X, so after more than 10 years of only linux one year ago I switched to mac os x, and I'm very happy so far.
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#28Plan 9 from Bell Labs ( http://plan9.cat-v.org ) and
Inferno ( http://code.google.com/p/inferno-os/ )
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#30Question for Mac/Windows users: I develop on Linux, but occasionally on Mac or Windows. To be honest I'm pretty happy with a text editor and a few terminals on any platform, but one thing I miss is fast window management. Specifically:
* Focus follows mouse
* Alt+LMB drag to move whole window
* Alt+MMB drag to move nearest corner (ie resize)
The default Mac interface in particular I find difficult, as there's just one tiny resize tab in one corner. Is there anything that can help me here? Or do you do things differently?