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Despite the focus on cloud in the article, there are a lot of ubuntu desktop users. I mean it has become rare to see a dev running Windows in my experience. Cou
by eklavya 11y ago
Despite the focus on cloud in the article, there are a lot of ubuntu desktop users. I mean it has become rare to see a dev running Windows in my experience. Could be a regional thing but it seems popular here.
- donatj 11y agoI go to a fair number of conferences and it really depends on the conference and its represented tech. AWS Re:Invent was about 50% Windows, 30% Mac 20% Linux, Mobcon (mobile dev) was 30% Windows, 65% Mac, 5% Linux, but PhpTek I would say was 10% Windows, 60% Mac, 30% Linux. I was actually taken back by how many Linux laptops I saw.
- dfc 11y ago30% is that surprising to you?
- sethammons 11y agoCan't tell if you are joking. Op gave a 30% for each OS, once per OS per conference...
- dfc 11y agoAnd OP only expressed being surprised or "taken back"[sic] for one OS. Why are we talking about the other OSes?
- chris_st 11y agoEmberconf 2015 was (as near as I could tell) 95% mac.
- gkop 11y agoMac hardware is modestly popular among Linux users.
- doktrin 11y agoWindows isn't so bad. I had a legit prejudice against it for the longest time, and did literally everything in my power to avoid it even as my team began working almost exclusively on .NET projects. Now I've bootcamped my mac and swapped out my desktop Arch installation in favor of Windows 10. There are undoubtedly things that I miss - and I wouldn't be doing this if I wasn't primarily writing C# - but it's not quite the purgatory I'd imagined / remembered it being.
- frik 11y agoYou meant wasn't so bad (Win7). The Win10 privacy issues are a showstopper on desktop.
- dikaiosune 11y agoIIRC, nearly all of that behavior can be disabled during installation (so before any user activity exists). And if you're talking about backdoors/hidden privacy behavior, there's been a risk of that since Windows 95. I think that the defaults of Win10 are bad, but it's not all as bad as the FUD that's floating around.
- mixmastamyk 11y agoNearly is not nearly good enough.
- vetinari 11y agoThat behavior that you set will be reset back to defaults with the next update. Thanks, but I have better things to do with my time than chasing settings in the system, whose vendor does not respect my choices.
- eximius 11y agoThe worst features can only be disabled on Enterprise editions of Windows. That is not the attitude I want in the most important piece of software on my computer.
- davidw 11y agoThey gave me a Mac at work, but... it's not for me. I got a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu as soon as they let me.
- listic 11y agoCouldn't install Ubuntu on a Mac? Technically, it works.
- Torgo 11y agoTechnically? I've done it for a few years now and am happy. I daresay, ...it just works.
- StavrosK 11y agoWell, some things don't, but it mostly works. Sleep is always dodgy for me (won't wake up properly), the camera doesn't work, and the brightness adjuster is spotty, but it's nothing I can't live with.
- davidw 11y agoI'd rather see the money go towards a company that's actually working to support Linux, will deal with the machine under warranty, and so on. Also, the keys are in the right place, there are two mouse buttons, and so on.
- jgalt212 11y agoI just tried install in Ubuntu 15.04 on my new XPS 15 and it turned into a brick--can't even get into BIOS. Nor can I boot from USB because the interwebs told me I needed to disable them to get them working again--somehow they were disabled during the install process. Hopefully, I can return and get an inspiron or HP.
- davidw 11y agoI bought the model with Ubuntu preinstalled to ensure it would "just work". It does.
- shmerl 11y agoFor primary desktop in my environment most run OS X. Few developers around me run Debian or Mint. Some openSUSE. Ubuntu no so much.