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Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by ccalvert »

Windows 8 on the desktop, Ubuntu 14.04 on the laptop. I also run Ubuntu with VirtualBox on the desktop. Development mostly with WebStorm (jetbrains), Geany, nodejs, express and angular. Git ties the three systems together.

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by PuerkitoBio »

beezle wrote: post #8

Primary is win 8 and IntelliJ IDEA, secondary is FreeBSD on a number of servers. There is work and personal under both.

Work: OSX on 2012 rMBP / iTerm2, Vim+vim-go, Go

Personal: Arch Linux on Asus Zenbook UX31e / dwm, zsh, Vim+vim-go, Go

edit: sorry for the reply, that was meant as a top-level comment. I'm afraid it's a bug in my iPad HN reader.

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by zserge »

Thinkpad x120e + Gentoo is the only development machine I run (still looking for a newer 12" thinkpad to replace this one). There is also ubuntu installed in the chroot (for android firmware builds) and a few docker containers with various OSes.

In theory I can survive with any OS/platform, since my primary tools are tmux+vim+zsh. I use them for android development (Java, Kotlin), for web (JavaScript, Golang), for embedded systems (C, Lua).

So the only two apps that I keep always open is a full-screen terminal and a browser. Probably even Chrome OS would be comfortable for me :)

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by bliker »

HW: Retina Macbook Pro

SW: OSX for Photoshop and Illustrator, Sublime Text for C/JS/PHP plus XCode. I also run Windows VM for all sorts of engineering software (Siemens NX, ANSYS, LabView, Multisim).

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