Linux personally, and professionally last time I wasn't self-employed.
Mac is too expensive, Windows 11 is cruel and unusual.
Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?
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Re: Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?
#12Windows options should be Windows (no WSL) or Windows (+WSL)
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#13Where's OpenBSD or Plan9?
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#14I never found anything better than the latest macOS machines. I ran ubuntu for years and then switched back to mac just because I don't have the time to tinker and fiddle with stuff in Linux that just randomly makes the computer run hot, or a monitor to not work, or fonts looking awful.
MacOS is just the sweet spot of great desktop + great unix-style devbox.
Re: Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?
#15Completely unrelated, but how does one create a poll on HN?
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#16First time seeing a poll here, didn't know that was even possible.
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#17MacOS
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#18Not sure this covers popular mixes, eg WSL or considers AI clients. My IDE is Windows (VSCode or Cursor); but I'm also using ChatGPT in the browser and various Linux command line tools (connecting through Windows Terminal to WSL Redhat). There should probably be a fully hybrid option in the poll.
It does, if you use WSL you're OS is Windows.
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#19Omarchy has been a blast to use
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#20FreeBSD