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Am I the only person with a dual screen Win7 desktop paired with an Ubuntu server?

by mey 16y ago

joshu 16y ago
Dual screen older iMac plus an ubuntu server (msi wind + ssd)
dkarl 16y ago
My most common work programming scenario: editing files on our Debian build server via sshfs in emacs running in a screen session on my dual-monitor Ubuntu desktop which I log into using Putty on my XP laptop.
mdwrigh2 16y ago
I imagine you're in the minority, running Windows as a developer in this community. A lot of the software and tools just don't play as nicely with something that isn't as tightly integrated with a shell. Currently I'm running a Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit on my desktop with two monitors (24" and 19"), and 10.04 64-bit on my laptop (mid-2008 model MBP with 8GB RAM). For a server I typically use my desktop for prototyping things for myself, and use a Linode server (again, running Ubuntu 10.04, but Server edition, rather than Desktop) to host things I want more reliable, consistent access to (blog, etc). Having consistency across my setup is pretty nice for making sure everything interacts well, both on my development machine and production instances. I also run Ubuntu on my dual monitor lab machine. I'm an undergraduate student, but I do security research for the university part time with one of the professors.
guelo 16y ago
Same here. I even own a Macbook Pro but just can't use it as my main because of all the awful UI quirks. Maybe it's the 15 years of Windows conditioning, and I'm not trying to start a flamewar but come on, if I have a window in the far right of my display I'm supposed to go all the way to the top left to click on a menu item? Why doesn't maximizing actually maximize? Do I need function, control, alt, option, and command keys? Where are the Page Up, Page Down, Home, or End keys? Why is Alt-Tab retarded? Argh! I could go on but I'll just go move files around my sanely organized file browser for a little while to calm down.
- loewenskind 16y ago
  You shouldn't let ignorance get you so angry. Especially when it's so easy to fix (first hit on google): http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343 http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343 I didn't see page up/down in there, so: fn+up/down
cytzol 16y ago
I should hope not! Windows 7 is the only OS that can readily handle recent (within the last year) graphics cards, both for gaming and programming (when you can offset some calculations to the GPU, things become fast). Whenever I try Linux, getting all the hardware working is fiddly, and the hardware in Apple computers is about a year behind everywhere else. I still run a virtualised Linux environment, though, because there are some things (such as Git integration in Emacs) that I couldn't get working quite right. It works oddly well overall. I also have four monitors, 'cause I'm weird. [Edit: I originally wrote "modern" graphics cards, which is a term so variable it doesn't have a meaning.]

Am I the only person with a dual screen Win7 desktop paired with an Ubuntu server?

by mey 16y ago

Am I the only person with a dual screen Win7 desktop paired with an Ubuntu server?

joshu 16y ago

Dual screen older iMac plus an ubuntu server (msi wind + ssd)

dkarl 16y ago

My most common work programming scenario: editing files on our Debian build server via sshfs in emacs running in a screen session on my dual-monitor Ubuntu desktop which I log into using Putty on my XP laptop.

mdwrigh2 16y ago

I imagine you're in the minority, running Windows as a developer in this community. A lot of the software and tools just don't play as nicely with something that isn't as tightly integrated with a shell. Currently I'm running a Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit on my desktop with two monitors (24" and 19"), and 10.04 64-bit on my laptop (mid-2008 model MBP with 8GB RAM). For a server I typically use my desktop for prototyping things for myself, and use a Linode server (again, running Ubuntu 10.04, but Server edition, rather than Desktop) to host things I want more reliable, consistent access to (blog, etc). Having consistency across my setup is pretty nice for making sure everything interacts well, both on my development machine and production instances. I also run Ubuntu on my dual monitor lab machine. I'm an undergraduate student, but I do security research for the university part time with one of the professors.

guelo 16y ago

Same here. I even own a Macbook Pro but just can't use it as my main because of all the awful UI quirks. Maybe it's the 15 years of Windows conditioning, and I'm not trying to start a flamewar but come on, if I have a window in the far right of my display I'm supposed to go all the way to the top left to click on a menu item? Why doesn't maximizing actually maximize? Do I need function, control, alt, option, and command keys? Where are the Page Up, Page Down, Home, or End keys? Why is Alt-Tab retarded? Argh! I could go on but I'll just go move files around my sanely organized file browser for a little while to calm down.

loewenskind 16y ago
You shouldn't let ignorance get you so angry. Especially when it's so easy to fix (first hit on google): http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343 http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343 I didn't see page up/down in there, so: fn+up/down

cytzol 16y ago

I should hope not! Windows 7 is the only OS that can readily handle recent (within the last year) graphics cards, both for gaming and programming (when you can offset some calculations to the GPU, things become fast). Whenever I try Linux, getting all the hardware working is fiddly, and the hardware in Apple computers is about a year behind everywhere else. I still run a virtualised Linux environment, though, because there are some things (such as Git integration in Emacs) that I couldn't get working quite right. It works oddly well overall. I also have four monitors, 'cause I'm weird. [Edit: I originally wrote "modern" graphics cards, which is a term so variable it doesn't have a meaning.]