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You know what they say. Windows for your gaming desktop, Mac for your laptop, and Linux for your servers.
by teaearlgraycold 4y ago
You know what they say. Windows for your gaming desktop, Mac for your laptop, and Linux for your servers.
- browningstreet 4y agoAgreed on the Linux for your servers bit, for sure.
- bradwood 4y agoReally? I thought it was Arch for your desktop, Arch for your laptop and RHEL for your servers? /s
- AnnualDegree99 4y agoThere are some people in Arch communities that use Arch on servers too and think that stability is not necessary.
- bradwood 4y agoWell, if you're doing immutable infrastructure, it's probably perfectly reasonable. Not sure about rolling releases on production gear though.
- sandGorgon 4y agohave you seen WSL ? Windows is very compelling for your laptop
- teaearlgraycold 4y agoBut the hardware options aren’t great
- baq 4y agoI’m now using a Macbook Pro (3 months give or take) after being on windows HPs and the hardware is excellent but macOS itself… not great by any means. Windows+WSL2 is a better developer experience and I’m honestly surprised as I expected it to be the other way around. Granted to make windows usable I had to install tons of tools, but the same is true for the Mac!
- ActorNightly 4y agoNot so much anymore. WSL2 under Windows is very good these days, you can run ML tasks without much overhead, and Windows 11 has an x server that allows graphical applications to run from WSL2. So for home development, all you really need is Windows (if you game, if you don't or run games that work well under Linux, Linux is the better choice). For laptop, it very much varies by use case. For general higher level coding and web browsing, M1/M2s work very well. For more specialized use cases, Linux is simply better than OS X.