4 ms·

Good for you - I refuse to use laptop for dev since I like multi-monitor env - and this is much easier and cheaper on desktop. On the other hand how often you

Good for you - I refuse to use laptop for dev since I like multi-monitor env - and this is much easier and cheaper on desktop. On the other hand how often you do real work without AC ?

zzalpha 9y ago
Frequently. It's a laptop, that's kinda the point! Aircraft and buses are common locations, but even when I'm coding on the couch I appreciate not being tethered to an outlet. And the sleep/hibernate problems are equally if not more important. I need to be able to close my laptop and reopen it without it consistently crashing. Debian Sid had a good stretch for a while there but right around the move to systemd things destabilized again and I'm just done with it.
- tkubacki 9y ago
  Got it - still I've had to use laptop - I would go with one of Chromebooks with Crouton or System76 laptops
  - zzalpha 9y ago
    A chromebook as a dev environment is something I've never heard of. My dev laptop has 16Gb of memory and a 512Gb SSD with a Core i7 onboard. It gets 8 hours of active dev work on a charge. No Chromebook comes close to those specs. More generally, Linux just fails on a laptop. See the comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/48y2db/system76_laptop_reviews/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/48y2db/system76_lapt... And that's for a laptop designed to work with Linux. Again, I have deep familiarity with running Linux on a laptop, having done so for over 10 years. Debian running on my old Lenovo T410 worked okay. Most of the time. Well, for a while, anyway. Assuming I could live with 2-3 hours of battery life and apt-get update resulting in random hardware breakage.
    - tkubacki 9y ago
      In general I do agree that it's hard to have good laptop/linux developer experience. Chromebooks are usually not very strong machines however I've seen people working this way on Pixels. Heard lot of good about using better laptop with this https://www.neverware.com/ https://www.neverware.com/ - still it's unclear how reliable it's

Good for you - I refuse to use laptop for dev since I like multi-monitor env - and this is much easier and cheaper on desktop. On the other hand how often you do real work without AC ?

zzalpha 9y ago

Frequently. It's a laptop, that's kinda the point! Aircraft and buses are common locations, but even when I'm coding on the couch I appreciate not being tethered to an outlet. And the sleep/hibernate problems are equally if not more important. I need to be able to close my laptop and reopen it without it consistently crashing. Debian Sid had a good stretch for a while there but right around the move to systemd things destabilized again and I'm just done with it.

tkubacki 9y ago
Got it - still I've had to use laptop - I would go with one of Chromebooks with Crouton or System76 laptops
- zzalpha 9y ago
  A chromebook as a dev environment is something I've never heard of. My dev laptop has 16Gb of memory and a 512Gb SSD with a Core i7 onboard. It gets 8 hours of active dev work on a charge. No Chromebook comes close to those specs. More generally, Linux just fails on a laptop. See the comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/48y2db/system76_laptop_reviews/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/48y2db/system76_lapt... And that's for a laptop designed to work with Linux. Again, I have deep familiarity with running Linux on a laptop, having done so for over 10 years. Debian running on my old Lenovo T410 worked okay. Most of the time. Well, for a while, anyway. Assuming I could live with 2-3 hours of battery life and apt-get update resulting in random hardware breakage.
  - tkubacki 9y ago
    In general I do agree that it's hard to have good laptop/linux developer experience. Chromebooks are usually not very strong machines however I've seen people working this way on Pixels. Heard lot of good about using better laptop with this https://www.neverware.com/ https://www.neverware.com/ - still it's unclear how reliable it's