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In my humble opinion, OSX : Productivity, Linux : Development, Windows : Games I've been with all of these for all my computing life & still doing the same.
by Abishek_Muthian 10y ago
In my humble opinion,
OSX : Productivity, Linux : Development, Windows : Games
I've been with all of these for all my computing life & still doing the same.
OSX/macOS is great for anyone who doesn't want to meddle with their system, especially if you use iDevices. Though developers have historically liked OSX, it could be apt for web development or anything non resource consuming (like java/android). For e.g I symlinked my android sdk (15 GB) to another SSD and had the android studio run from the native partition & the android studio's instant run feature sure made whole lot of mess and took 1 hour to compile ~2,00,000 lines of code. Of course this is not the fault of OSX, but I can manage partitions better & expandability is cheaper in a linux based system. Of course
Linux : I use an external SSD with Arch Linux for android development with the Mac. It has improved my development productivity multifold. Of course you might need some tinkering to do, but will be straight forward unless it involves GPU. Basically GPU drivers, especially Nvidia sucks big time on linux.
Windows : DirectX.
- slitaz 10y agoThe game situation is changing fast. Even CivIV was just announced that it is coming to Linux. Perhaps the Vulkan drivers will make it even better to write crossplatform games.
- hobarrera 10y agoPlus, wine works marvelously nowadays, with lots of games getting platinum or gold ratings, some even on the day they're released.
- pawadu 10y ago> OSX/macOS is great for anyone who doesn't want to meddle with their system We use ubuntu for that here. Outside adding your own dotfiles the machines are completely untouched. Works like a charm. Okay, I admit I have also changed my desktop background ;)