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Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by azurelogic »

lion0 wrote: post #54
charlieegan3 wrote: post #30

OS: 10.10.3 Hardware: BTO 2012 rMBP 2.6 GHz i7, 16GB, 512GB Tools: Rails, Sublime Text 3, iTerm, Tower, (Spotify :D)

Was it worth it getting the 16GB of RAM? I'm thinking of getting the same myself.

If you're buying any laptop for development use, it's worth getting 16 GB of RAM if possible. You may not need much more than 8 GB right now, but inevitably your need will increase over the next few years, and many laptops aren't expandable anymore.

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by onestone »

OS: Arch Linux with KDE Plasma 5 (for servers I use Debian or Ubuntu LTS, whichever is more recent)

Hardware: Asus K93SV laptop

Tools: io.js, Atom, vagrant-lxc, Ansible, Docker, Git, Mercurial, Babel, ...

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by davidgerard »

Xubuntu 14.04. It works and stays the heck out of my way. Whenever I hear the words "desktop" and "innovation", I reach for my revolver.

Hardware: whatever the nice thing my employer is providing. As a sysadmin, I feel it is a deep wrongness to spend money on hardware when there are employers for that sort of thing. Desktop is an HP DC7800 (I think) and laptop is a Lenovo X230 (which works flawlessly with free-software drivers).

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by gtf21 »

- OSX 10.10 on a MacBook Pro, 15" late 2014 (I use my laptop for everything, work and home). - Various servers with Ubuntu / Debian on Digital Ocean.

- Atom, Git (Tower/Atom/command line), Node, Python, Docker

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by nitai »

This is a question that comes at the right time for me.

I just went two weeks with a Asus UX305 and Ubuntu 14.04. Everything worked out of the box. Beautiful hardware, too.

Since I run all my servers on Ubuntu LTS I really wanted to go with Ubuntu Desktop.

However, after two weeks I'm going back to MacOS X. Reason is that I'm just way faster with MacOS X. Additionally, and I hate to say this, but it is not the OS alone anymore theses days.

Applications can make or break your decision. Something like Sourcetree is awesome, Arq (for backup) is a simple no-brainer. The option to use Time-Machine and re-install a Mac is painless. Dash for documentation simply rocks, Slack as an independent app is very convenient, etc.

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