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I started using Linux on the desktop in 2001 and have only used other OSes casually since then. Linux is incredibly productive for me and I'm pretty worthless

by teach 10y ago

I started using Linux on the desktop in 2001 and have only used other OSes casually since then. Linux is incredibly productive for me and I'm pretty worthless on other operating systems. And I'm old enough that I'm no longer willing to put in the time to learn a new one. Ubuntu does what I want; I don't have to configure things and It Just Works 99% of the time. Plus it's free, so there's no financial incentive to use something else.

dogma1138 10y ago
Can I ask you a honest question? How much time do you spend on ISM that the OS actually matters to you that much? I've heard a lot of people saying I'm more productive on X, but in every case I never had real examples of OS specific reasons why they were more productive as in every case it boiled down to the Application ecosystem they end up using. Say you are a Java (it's easy, common, and cross platform) developer this means you need your Eclipse/Netbeans IDE, a JVM and or some Java based web server. So you have your IDE+JVM on the OS, and development/deployment & test environment on a virtual machine, does it really matter to you if you are running Linux, Windows or OSX in this case? All you use and see is Eclipse, a text editor, Virtual Box and a web browser.
- meekins 10y ago
  Yes, when spending most of the day in front of a cross-platform IDE the OS has very little effect. But the OS has an effect on configuration side of things. Due to working in parallel with different projects and systems I need to have multiple versions of JDK available, a set of multiple build tools in different versions and multiple application servers. I have used Windows, OSX and Linux for development and Linux has been the easiest environment to set up and maintain and Linux VMs also solve the multiple app servers-problem. I don't have that much experience with OSX (only got my MacBook Pro a couple of months ago) and so far it feels quite alien. While there's the familiar power of Unix lurking in the back the GUI side feels very cumbersome and something I feel I have very little control on. Is that the Apple usability magic that people usually talk about?

by teach 10y ago

dogma1138 10y ago

Can I ask you a honest question? How much time do you spend on ISM that the OS actually matters to you that much? I've heard a lot of people saying I'm more productive on X, but in every case I never had real examples of OS specific reasons why they were more productive as in every case it boiled down to the Application ecosystem they end up using. Say you are a Java (it's easy, common, and cross platform) developer this means you need your Eclipse/Netbeans IDE, a JVM and or some Java based web server. So you have your IDE+JVM on the OS, and development/deployment & test environment on a virtual machine, does it really matter to you if you are running Linux, Windows or OSX in this case? All you use and see is Eclipse, a text editor, Virtual Box and a web browser.

meekins 10y ago
Yes, when spending most of the day in front of a cross-platform IDE the OS has very little effect. But the OS has an effect on configuration side of things. Due to working in parallel with different projects and systems I need to have multiple versions of JDK available, a set of multiple build tools in different versions and multiple application servers. I have used Windows, OSX and Linux for development and Linux has been the easiest environment to set up and maintain and Linux VMs also solve the multiple app servers-problem. I don't have that much experience with OSX (only got my MacBook Pro a couple of months ago) and so far it feels quite alien. While there's the familiar power of Unix lurking in the back the GUI side feels very cumbersome and something I feel I have very little control on. Is that the Apple usability magic that people usually talk about?