Ask HN: What OS do you run? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by huehue » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 2:28 PM UTC

Home: i7-4770k, 16gb RAM, AMD r9 290x running Windows 8.1. I might be getting an XPS 13 to replace my old laptop.

Work: i5, 8gb RAM 2015 MacbookPro running OS X.

I develop on Debian VMs (VirtualBox + Vagrant) at work and Ubuntu Server VMs (VMWare Workstation) at home. Almost everything is done remotely, sshing into the dev VM and running emacs there, the only exception being java stuff. Other than VM management tools and Eclipse my client boxes don't have much development stuff installed.

Tools: Emacs, Notepad++, Eclipse, Perl, Java, Clojure, Git, Putty/iterm2, Firefox, MySQL, redis. I'm playing around with OCaml but I'm a total noob.

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by nitai » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 9:00 PM UTC

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.

16GB for sure. This is one of the reasons why I stay with Mac. There are not many PC laptops with more than 8GB RAM.

Re: Ask HN: What OS do you run?

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Post by akulbe » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 11:19 PM UTC

Everything. OS X for the primary. Linux for 99% of the VMs. Windows, when some application makes it absolutely necessary.

Because I'm pretty invested in the Google ecosystem, I can move between them with ease. (using Chrome and Google Drive, and Google Apps for Work, for all my domains)

(I also have both an iPhone 6+ and a Nexus 6)

EDITED: to mention Chrome & Google Apps