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Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?
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#22LXC containers on top of Debian in a specific work station just for this. I have one generic container to start everything, and then create specific ones if projects get bigger.
This is by far the best option to isolate and easily create development environments that I found.
I connect to the containers from VS Code running on Mac OS.
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#23What about cloud based IDEs?
You probably run your browser on some OS, don't you?
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#24Where's OpenBSD or Plan9?
Dead? ;)
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#25I use Arch, btw
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#26Windows options should be Windows (no WSL) or Windows (+WSL)
Why? The computer is booted to windows, then you choose windows.
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#27Technically I use all 3.
I mostly work on my desktop which is Windows + WSL 2 with Ubuntu and use a MBP on the move.
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#28Not 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.
But he's de facto developing on a Linux machine.
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#29Depends: for hobby purposes, or what my daytime job forces on me?
22 years in the same Corp, targeting Linux systems since day one, and only in the first two years, and this year, have I been permitted a Linux desktop.
+2 years slugging in a vm.
Developing with out bash is just unnecessary work.
My productivity has more than doubled. easily. I manually type passwords half as much and when I do that is to access Microsoft services.
2fa wastes a huge amount of time.
Because nothing that needs 2fa is scriptable.
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#30Linux personally, and professionally last time I wasn't self-employed. Mac is too expensive, Windows 11 is cruel and unusual.
Mac Mini M4 or Macbook Air M4 is not expensive. Just bought the latter (extensive rebates at the moment) to replace my Intel-based 2019 MPB. Wow! It's pretty much the perfect laptop, at that price.
My primary complaint so far: The green color LED on the magsafe connector is not the same green as the LED on the caps lock key. This wouldn't have passed the Steve Jobs approval.