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Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Primary workstation is a custom tower with Arch Linux. Secondary is a dirt cheap laptop with Fedora, home server is FreeBSD. I also have a monster headless workstation at my job that runs CentOS. Oh, I forgot... I have one of the newish Dell Venue 8000 Android tablets too. I got one of those folding Microsoft bluetooth keyboards to go with it and it makes a pretty capable little SSH terminal that I can actually be productive on as well.

I mostly use Python, C++, Fortran and Haskell. For C++/Fortran, I mostly use the Intel compilers or Clang. I do my coding in Vim, with a few plugins to add the IDE features that I actually use. I use a mix of Kdb and Idb for debug work, both are really awesome.

I use i3 pretty much exclusively and urxvt+tmux, with some bits and pieces from KDE (e.g. Dolphin).

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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I've been running Ubuntu as my primary desktop since the end of 2005, tried a multitude of other distros but always come back to Ubuntu - it just "works", the font rendering is excellent out of the box, package management is superb, yadadyadayada. I run XFCE, use to run LXDE but found XFCE a lot nicer.

Python/PHP, learning Go.. also learning docker.

My main PC is a Haswell i7, 512GB 850 Samsung SSD for Linux, 840 (512GB) for Windows, 32GB RAM, nVidia 980GTX, I sometimes play games (not as much as I use to), and the desktop is a pretty fantastic option.

I run a MacBookAir 2013 (i7/8GB RAM) with Ubuntu as my primary desktop, it's fantastic hardware the only limitation I run into is when I need to run everything at once (which is rare).

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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OS: OSX 10.10.3 (sometimes Windows 10 with Parallels)

Hardware: rMBP 15" (2014)

Tools: IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, Sublime Text

I mostly do front-end webdevelopment with AngularJS. I also use a lot of Java and some C# for my CS study.

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Home: Arch on an 3rd gen Lenovo X1 carbon

Work: Xubuntu on a 2nd gen Lenovo X1 carbon

At home I use vim with the usual plugins for my work, and at work more atom with vim-mode and whatever else necessary.

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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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 em…

> Probably even Chrome OS would be comfortable for me

I have one of those Asus Chromeboxes, can't praise them highly enough. I have it dual booting ChromeOS and OpenELEC as a media center and never really intended it to be used as a PC, but I still rather like ChromeOS. With Crouton installed, it's a pretty capable little machine. I occasionally run Steam in Crouton to use the machine as a terminal for in home streaming to my bigger TV.

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