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Ask HN: What OS do you run?

What OS do you run/develop on and on what hardware? Also, what's your toolchain/development stack? OS: Arch Linux Hardware: Desktop (custom build), ThinkPad T510 Tools: Ruby, Rails, Vim, Git, etc

RexRollman 12y ago
Currently, I run OS X on a 2013 Macbook Air. I also run NetBSD inside of VMWare Fusion.
jjuhl 12y ago
Arch Linux privately. CentOS 7 for work. Toolchain: private; clang + gold linker. For work; GCC + gold linker. Emacs as editor/IDE in both cases. Privately i use Scons as my build tool, at work we use CMake. Debugger == gdb. As for languages, I do 98% C++, 2% C.
fsniper 12y ago
Gnu/Linux Debian Jessie. Development vim + YouCompleteMe. Php/python/golang whatever.
mattkrea 12y ago
Work: OS X on 2013 MacBook Pro (13") Home: Ubuntu 14.10 (used on all our servers as well) Tools: Sublime Text 3 + SublimeLinter + GoSublime and when I'm forced into it.. Visual Studio 2013 on a Windows 7 VM
guiambros 12y ago
Ubuntu 14.04 with Gnome 3.12 on a full tower desktop, with a multi-monitor setup. Sublime Text 3 with IPython, golang, etc. VMWare Workstation for running Windows, when needed.
JasuM 12y ago
Win 8.1, Arch Linux in VMWare Workstation. I mostly use the Linux in VMWare, Windows is mostly for Excel and Photoshop. Hardware is Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 12". Dev tools are vim + tmux + zsh, PHP + nginx for work and Clang + CMake for personal projects.
beezle 12y ago
Primary is win 8 and IntelliJ IDEA, secondary is FreeBSD on a number of servers. There is work and personal under both.
- PuerkitoBio 12y ago
  Work: OSX on 2012 rMBP / iTerm2, Vim+vim-go, Go Personal: Arch Linux on Asus Zenbook UX31e / dwm, zsh, Vim+vim-go, Go edit: sorry for the reply, that was meant as a top-level comment. I'm afraid it's a bug in my iPad HN reader.
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draven 12y ago
Archlinux at home on my desktop (custom build, a bit old), with Emacs + Ensime for Scala dev, with the usual suspects: sbt, Scala 2.11.x, Play. A Raspberry Pi B w/ Archlinux. I tried to play with Scala on it but it's a bit too limited. I use it for private repos and a bit of Go coding occasionnaly (with Emacs + tramp or vim over SSH.) OS X 10.10 on a 2014 MacBook Pro w/ Intellij at work (I hate this damn OS) and a dozen AWS instances running Ubuntu IIRC.
ccalvert 12y ago
Windows 8 on the desktop, Ubuntu 14.04 on the laptop. I also run Ubuntu with VirtualBox on the desktop. Development mostly with WebStorm (jetbrains), Geany, nodejs, express and angular. Git ties the three systems together.
eli_gottlieb 12y ago
Linux Mint on a repurposed 2011 Macbook Pro, at the moment.
robinhoodexe 12y ago
OS X on my laptop. Debian on my Raspberry Pi. iOS on my smartphone.
ilyasjan 12y ago
OS: OS X 10.10.3 Hardware: Macbook Air Tools: Clojure,PHP,Emacs,Intellij Idea.
zserge 12y ago
Thinkpad x120e + Gentoo is the only development machine I run (still looking for a newer 12" thinkpad to replace this one). There is also ubuntu installed in the chroot (for android firmware builds) and a few docker containers with various OSes. In theory I can survive with any OS/platform, since my primary tools are tmux+vim+zsh. I use them for android development (Java, Kotlin), for web (JavaScript, Golang), for embedded systems (C, Lua). So the only two apps that I keep always open is a full-screen terminal and a browser. Probably even Chrome OS would be comfortable for me :)
- gh02t 12y ago
  > Probably even Chrome OS would be comfortable for me I have one of those Asus Chromeboxes, can't praise them highly enough. I have it dual booting ChromeOS and OpenELEC as a media center and never really intended it to be used as a PC, but I still rather like ChromeOS. With Crouton installed, it's a pretty capable little machine. I occasionally run Steam in Crouton to use the machine as a terminal for in home streaming to my bigger TV.
- FlailFast 12y ago
  Nice! I'm trying the ChromeOS browser + terminal experiment myself. Just bought a 2015 Chromebook Pixel LS and outside the local storage issue it's a glorious machine. In terms of terminal use, I thought a chroot would be a little heavy handed and I didn't want to get rid of Google's verified boot, so I bootstrapped Linuxbrew and gcc using this guide: https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/wiki/Chromebook-Install-Instructions https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/wiki/Chromebook-Instal... Given that I use vim + bash + go + ruby / python + js + tmux...well, everything seems to work. And it's easily the fastest web browser I've ever used. I tried installing Gentoo Prefix but couldn't get it up and running...think that would be better than Linuxbrew, but for now this seems to suffice. If I run into any roadblocks I'll probably wind up doing the whole crouton/chroot thing, but for now I'm a happy camper.
- forgotpasswd3x 12y ago
  > Thinkpad x120e + Gentoo I can't imagine running gentoo on that computer. The compile times would drive me insane.
danielmunro 12y ago
OSX for local host, latest Ubuntu for work
bliker 12y ago
HW: Retina Macbook Pro SW: OSX for Photoshop and Illustrator, Sublime Text for C/JS/PHP plus XCode. I also run Windows VM for all sorts of engineering software (Siemens NX, ANSYS, LabView, Multisim).
S4M 12y ago
OS: Debian Hardware: Dell laptop Tools: Emacs, python, javascript, git; playing a bit with C, Clojure, Haskell.
pinaraf 12y ago
Debian sid, what else... On desktop, laptop, servers... Tools : QtCreator / KDevelop for C++, Netbeans for Java, vim or Kate for everything else
gh02t 12y ago
Primary workstation is a custom tower with Arch Linux. Secondary is a dirt cheap laptop with Fedora, home server is FreeBSD. I also have a monster headless workstation at my job that runs CentOS. Oh, I forgot... I have one of the newish Dell Venue 8000 Android tablets too. I got one of those folding Microsoft bluetooth keyboards to go with it and it makes a pretty capable little SSH terminal that I can actually be productive on as well. I mostly use Python, C++, Fortran and Haskell. For C++/Fortran, I mostly use the Intel compilers or Clang. I do my coding in Vim, with a few plugins to add the IDE features that I actually use. I use a mix of Kdb and Idb for debug work, both are really awesome. I use i3 pretty much exclusively and urxvt+tmux, with some bits and pieces from KDE (e.g. Dolphin).
gabordemooij 12y ago
I run CRUX Linux with OpenBox on a BTO X86 i7.
ytimoschenko 12y ago
OS X on MacBook Air, OpenBSD on servers. I use Make, Vi, and interpreters/compilers of various programming languages (Erlang, Golang, Clojure, Perl, etc). I also use most of generic software from OpenBSD base.
Apreche 12y ago
Thinkpad with Windows 7, but I develop in virtual machines running Ubuntu.
thejosh 12y ago
I've been running Ubuntu as my primary desktop since the end of 2005, tried a multitude of other distros but always come back to Ubuntu - it just "works", the font rendering is excellent out of the box, package management is superb, yadadyadayada. I run XFCE, use to run LXDE but found XFCE a lot nicer. Python/PHP, learning Go.. also learning docker. My main PC is a Haswell i7, 512GB 850 Samsung SSD for Linux, 840 (512GB) for Windows, 32GB RAM, nVidia 980GTX, I sometimes play games (not as much as I use to), and the desktop is a pretty fantastic option. I run a MacBookAir 2013 (i7/8GB RAM) with Ubuntu as my primary desktop, it's fantastic hardware the only limitation I run into is when I need to run everything at once (which is rare).
seesharp 12y ago
OS: OSX 10.10.3 (sometimes Windows 10 with Parallels) Hardware: rMBP 15" (2014) Tools: IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, Sublime Text I mostly do front-end webdevelopment with AngularJS. I also use a lot of Java and some C# for my CS study.
jug5 12y ago
Home: Arch on an 3rd gen Lenovo X1 carbon Work: Xubuntu on a 2nd gen Lenovo X1 carbon At home I use vim with the usual plugins for my work, and at work more atom with vim-mode and whatever else necessary.
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charlieegan3 12y ago
OS: 10.10.3 Hardware: BTO 2012 rMBP 2.6 GHz i7, 16GB, 512GB Tools: Rails, Sublime Text 3, iTerm, Tower, (Spotify :D)
- lion0 12y ago
  Was it worth it getting the 16GB of RAM? I'm thinking of getting the same myself.
  - azurelogic 12y ago
    If you're buying any laptop for development use, it's worth getting 16 GB of RAM if possible. You may not need much more than 8 GB right now, but inevitably your need will increase over the next few years, and many laptops aren't expandable anymore.
  - nitai 12y ago
    16GB for sure. This is one of the reasons why I stay with Mac. There are not many PC laptops with more than 8GB RAM.
jsherer 12y ago
Just recently picked up a Lenovo Thinkpad and immediately installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on it. It's quite unfortunate that the bar is set so low with Linux laptops that the thing I enjoyed most is that everything worked out of the box, including wifi, suspend/hibernate, and external monitors. Hopefully this trend continues with more laptop brands so more people can enjoy the freedom in choosing an OS that works best for them without having to worry about whether or not standard features work without difficulty.
m-i-l 12y ago
Home: Ubuntu 14.04 for both desktop and HTPC (MythTV). Both are custom builds. Became exclusively Linux at home around 12 years ago, when I built a cheap PC for £160, then had to pay £200 for a Windows XP licence, but couldn't install it because the CD was covered in holograms which the ultra-cheap CD drive couldn't read. Work: Desktop is Windows 7. Believe it or not I'm one of a handful piloting Windows 7 - most are still on Windows XP.
lordbusiness 12y ago
OS: Mac OS X (But likely switching to Ubuntu soon) Hardware: Retina MacBook Pro (But XPS 13 Dev Edition will be next) Tools: Atom, Git, whatever toolkits necessary for my current working language. Edit: formatting and typo
wglb 12y ago
Linux, moving to FreeBSD, OpenBSD on routers, Windows for some legacy products, OS X. Toolchain mostly lisp, bit of ruby, C, python (My Windows NT box finally died)
Mister_Snuggles 12y ago
Work is MacOS X and Windows 7 on a Retina MacBook Pro. Windows is used for PeopleTools, but everything else (SQL Developer, NetBeans, etc) runs in MacOS. Home is Mac OS X on a 4-year-old MacBook Pro (which, after replacing the HDD with an SSD, feels a lot faster than you might expect) or Kubuntu 14.10 on a ThinkPad x131e (working Linux, cheap, and rugged were the main requirements when I bought that). Personal projects generally involve Python or Java, so a text editor and NetBeans are my tools of choice.
QuantumRoar 12y ago
OpenSuse for work (not my choice), FreeBSD on a private server, OS X for the laptop, pfSense (based on FreeBSD) on a firewall, Raspbian for the little things, and I just ordered a NAS that will be running FreeNAS (also based on FreeBSD). Vim, Git, Intel compiler, Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Mathematica. Python for scripting, Haskell for analytical mathematical stuff, Fortran for high performance, Mathematica for fiddling around and sanity checks. A total of 224 Xeon cores and 5TB of main memory. For my private hacking I just use a laptop and whatever language seems to fit the purpose. Also, I'm about to buy a desktop computer and I was thinking of using Arch for that.
LukeB_UK 12y ago
Work: Linux Mint 17.1 on a Samsung NP350V5C using Sublime Text 3 (and various plugins) developing Javascript and PHP Home laptop: Linux Mint 17.1 on an Asus UL30A (it was free) using Sublime Text 3 (and various plugins) developing Javascript and Node.js Home PC: Dual boot windows 8.1/Linux Mint 17.1 on a custom tower. Windows is for playing games and developing unity games, linux is the same as on home laptop Edit: I also use GIT across all of them
rshetty 12y ago
OS: Yosemite Hardware: Retina Mac Book Pro 16GB Tools: Vim, Ruby, Rails, Git, Haskell, Javascript, RubyMine.
kevinherron 12y ago
OS: OS X Yosemite (10.10.2) Hardware: Retina MacBook Pro Tools: Java, IntelliJ, Git, Mercurial
sayems 12y ago
Work: Mac OS X Home: Arch Linux Hardware: Custom built desktop Tools: Android Studio for Android Development, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate for Java Development, Web-Development, and MySQL Workbench,
yodsanklai 12y ago
OS X 10.3.3 Mac mini (late 2012), MBP 13 (2014), at work imac 27 (2014) I use mainly vim with plugins (notably youcompleteme, syntastic, ctrlp) for programming in various languages. Python, C++, OCaml, Erlang, Go. I try to keep everything synchronized with unison and git. I like Mac OS because it works out of the box and I really hate spending time configuring things. But mostly, I'd be fine with any OS. The only thing that ties me to Mac OS is music recording. I couldn't get the same experience with Linux or Windows (not last time I checked a few years ago).
- RexRollman 12y ago
  Do you mean OS X 10.10.3?
  - yodsanklai 12y ago
    yes :)
rogerbinns 12y ago
Main system is current Ubuntu on a system assembled from parts from Frys. Core i7 3770 with 32GB of RAM (the most the MB can take), using Intel graphics and a 3 monitor setup. Development is mostly Python and C. There is also a similar laptop, a Mac mini, VMs for Windows, dual boot for Windows (games), and a large collection of various Android and iOS devices.
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woohoo7676 12y ago
OS: Windows 8.1 Hardware: Dell XPS 15 (2014), custom build desktop. Toolchain: C#/Xamarin/ASP MVC w/ VS2013, Git for SCM
bovermyer 12y ago
I use Mac OS X at work and on my web dev laptop (MBP). I use Windows 8.1 on my gaming PC. I have a Chromebook (CR-48) lying around collecting dust. Most other PCs in the house run Windows 7. My dev stack is... complex. I use PHP, MySQL, NodeJS, JS/jQuery, Python, and Mongo at work. On personal projects I use Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL, and raw JS. In both worlds I use Sass. I use a lot of Ansible. Go is very interesting, and may become important to me in the future.
M4v3R 12y ago
OS: OSX 10.10 Hardware: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13", late 2013 r.) Tools: Depends on a project I'm currently working on. Mostly MacVim for my editing needs (with a heavily modified config and a bunch of plugins: NERD Tree, Command-T, linters, etc.), but I also use XCode from time to time for iOS work. I do projects in Meteor, Angular JS and PHP.
wantab 12y ago
OS: FreeBSD Hardware: Desktop (custom build) Tools: The usual Unix-tools
sunasra 12y ago
OSx(Yosemite) in Macbook pro late 2013 IDE : Intellij, Atom Git
JamesBell 12y ago
OS: Windows7 on a Zenbook OS: Ubuntu/ChromeOS on a Acer C720 Chromebook Tools: Angular, BS3, PHP, slimPHP Agonizingly close to being able to use ChromeOS but primary client uses a VPN that ChromeOS refuses to support.
ntw1103 12y ago
work: windows 7 i7,32GB ram, notpad++, netbeans, visual studio. personal:QubesOS/windows7 dualboot on a Thinkpad T430s i7,16GB. Netbeans,nano,notepad++. my business: pfsense for the router. servers are running XenServer and/or Opensuse but I intend to switch some of the infrastructure to free/openBSD.
zumtar 12y ago
I use an ATIV Book 9 Plus ultrabook (13.3" LED QHD+ 3200 x 1800) as my main machine - the HiDPI screen is stunning and it is something I couldn't live without now. Up until a week or so ago, my OS was GNU/Linux Debian Jessie, my DE was Cinnamon and/or i3wm (depending on how I felt). A week ago I switched to Fedora 21 as I have to get back up to speed with RHEL for a work project. I am now using Gnome 3.14.2, and to be perfectly honest I am pleasantly surprised with the entire experience. Development tools: vim, gcc, python, opera-beta. Communication tools: utox and irc. I also run another machine that sits on a different VLAN that I use for skype, the machine is locked down with SELinux and firewall rules both inside the machine and on the Ethernet switch and router, I also use this machine if i need to view any flash content.
jaegerpicker 12y ago
OS: Mac OSX Deploy to CentOS Hardware: Mac Book Pro retina latest refresh deploy to aws/rackspace Tools: Java, Spring-mvc, JS, node and gulp, Intellij, chrome, emacs, sublime, tower git, kaleidoscope, Sequel Pro, hipchat, paw, zsh-ohmyzsh, iterm, Swift Just changed positions prior to that it was the same except Python, Django, and Go instead of Java and spring-mvc.
greggyb 12y ago
Work: OS: Windows 7+, Windows Server 2008+ Hardware: Consistently 4+ workstations and dev servers with varying specifications. Tools: SQL Server 2008+, Visual Studio 2012 with tweaked VsVim. Powershell, Vim and Cygwin. I work in BI consulting, so dev environments and workstations change with clients. Home: OS: Arch Linux Hardware: 2008 Sony Vaio (Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz, 4G RAM, not as bad as it sounds - I have no reason to update this machine until the RAM goes). I don't really do development at home - just trying to learn "real" programming. Vim, playing in Python, Lisps (Scheme and Common), and Haskell currently.
thiht 12y ago
Well I reinstalled my laptop a few weeks ago and I decided do go with Windows 10, I couldn't take anymore Windows 8.1... Windows 10 is what Windows 8 should have been from the beginning, it's an excellent OS. Hardware: Ideapad, Intel i7, 6Go RAM, graphic card geforce 840m Tools: Intellij with Java, Visual Studio with C#, Sublime with everything web related
phatak-dev 12y ago
OS : Linux Mint 17 Hardware : Dell inspiron Tools : Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Git
onestone 12y ago
OS: Arch Linux with KDE Plasma 5 (for servers I use Debian or Ubuntu LTS, whichever is more recent) Hardware: Asus K93SV laptop Tools: io.js, Atom, vagrant-lxc, Ansible, Docker, Git, Mercurial, Babel, ...
davidgerard 12y ago
Xubuntu 14.04. It works and stays the heck out of my way. Whenever I hear the words "desktop" and "innovation", I reach for my revolver. Hardware: whatever the nice thing my employer is providing. As a sysadmin, I feel it is a deep wrongness to spend money on hardware when there are employers for that sort of thing. Desktop is an HP DC7800 (I think) and laptop is a Lenovo X230 (which works flawlessly with free-software drivers).
enzolovesbacon 12y ago
Thinkpad T400, Slackware 14.1, dwm, screen, zsh, vim, gcc, make, git.
talleyrand 12y ago
Chrome OS with Crouton running Ubuntu CLI. My favorite setup of all time.
gtf21 12y ago
- OSX 10.10 on a MacBook Pro, 15" late 2014 (I use my laptop for everything, work and home). - Various servers with Ubuntu / Debian on Digital Ocean. - Atom, Git (Tower/Atom/command line), Node, Python, Docker
paultrott 12y ago
osx 10.10 for design :: ubuntu 14.10 for development :: windows for games
nitai 12y ago
This is a question that comes at the right time for me. I just went two weeks with a Asus UX305 and Ubuntu 14.04. Everything worked out of the box. Beautiful hardware, too. Since I run all my servers on Ubuntu LTS I really wanted to go with Ubuntu Desktop. However, after two weeks I'm going back to MacOS X. Reason is that I'm just way faster with MacOS X. Additionally, and I hate to say this, but it is not the OS alone anymore theses days. Applications can make or break your decision. Something like Sourcetree is awesome, Arq (for backup) is a simple no-brainer. The option to use Time-Machine and re-install a Mac is painless. Dash for documentation simply rocks, Slack as an independent app is very convenient, etc.
romanovcode 12y ago
Windows 8.1 (waiting for W10) Visual Studio 2013 (waiting for VS2015)
maxamillion 12y ago
OS: Fedora Rawhide[0] (XFCE Spin) Hardware: ThinkPad T440s Tools: python, ruby, go, vim[1], git, tmux [0] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide [1] - http://vim.spf13.com/ http://vim.spf13.com/
huehue 12y ago
Home: i7-4770k, 16gb RAM, AMD r9 290x running Windows 8.1. I might be getting an XPS 13 to replace my old laptop. Work: i5, 8gb RAM 2015 MacbookPro running OS X. I develop on Debian VMs (VirtualBox + Vagrant) at work and Ubuntu Server VMs (VMWare Workstation) at home. Almost everything is done remotely, sshing into the dev VM and running emacs there, the only exception being java stuff. Other than VM management tools and Eclipse my client boxes don't have much development stuff installed. Tools: Emacs, Notepad++, Eclipse, Perl, Java, Clojure, Git, Putty/iterm2, Firefox, MySQL, redis. I'm playing around with OCaml but I'm a total noob.
akulbe 12y ago
Everything. OS X for the primary. Linux for 99% of the VMs. Windows, when some application makes it absolutely necessary. Because I'm pretty invested in the Google ecosystem, I can move between them with ease. (using Chrome and Google Drive, and Google Apps for Work, for all my domains) (I also have both an iPhone 6+ and a Nexus 6) EDITED: to mention Chrome & Google Apps

What OS do you run/develop on and on what hardware? Also, what's your toolchain/development stack? OS: Arch Linux Hardware: Desktop (custom build), ThinkPad T510 Tools: Ruby, Rails, Vim, Git, etc

RexRollman 12y ago

Currently, I run OS X on a 2013 Macbook Air. I also run NetBSD inside of VMWare Fusion.

jjuhl 12y ago

Arch Linux privately. CentOS 7 for work. Toolchain: private; clang + gold linker. For work; GCC + gold linker. Emacs as editor/IDE in both cases. Privately i use Scons as my build tool, at work we use CMake. Debugger == gdb. As for languages, I do 98% C++, 2% C.

fsniper 12y ago

Gnu/Linux Debian Jessie. Development vim + YouCompleteMe. Php/python/golang whatever.

mattkrea 12y ago

Work: OS X on 2013 MacBook Pro (13") Home: Ubuntu 14.10 (used on all our servers as well) Tools: Sublime Text 3 + SublimeLinter + GoSublime and when I'm forced into it.. Visual Studio 2013 on a Windows 7 VM

guiambros 12y ago

Ubuntu 14.04 with Gnome 3.12 on a full tower desktop, with a multi-monitor setup. Sublime Text 3 with IPython, golang, etc. VMWare Workstation for running Windows, when needed.

JasuM 12y ago

Win 8.1, Arch Linux in VMWare Workstation. I mostly use the Linux in VMWare, Windows is mostly for Excel and Photoshop. Hardware is Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 12". Dev tools are vim + tmux + zsh, PHP + nginx for work and Clang + CMake for personal projects.

beezle 12y ago

Primary is win 8 and IntelliJ IDEA, secondary is FreeBSD on a number of servers. There is work and personal under both.

PuerkitoBio 12y ago
Work: OSX on 2012 rMBP / iTerm2, Vim+vim-go, Go Personal: Arch Linux on Asus Zenbook UX31e / dwm, zsh, Vim+vim-go, Go edit: sorry for the reply, that was meant as a top-level comment. I'm afraid it's a bug in my iPad HN reader.

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draven 12y ago

Archlinux at home on my desktop (custom build, a bit old), with Emacs + Ensime for Scala dev, with the usual suspects: sbt, Scala 2.11.x, Play. A Raspberry Pi B w/ Archlinux. I tried to play with Scala on it but it's a bit too limited. I use it for private repos and a bit of Go coding occasionnaly (with Emacs + tramp or vim over SSH.) OS X 10.10 on a 2014 MacBook Pro w/ Intellij at work (I hate this damn OS) and a dozen AWS instances running Ubuntu IIRC.

ccalvert 12y ago

Windows 8 on the desktop, Ubuntu 14.04 on the laptop. I also run Ubuntu with VirtualBox on the desktop. Development mostly with WebStorm (jetbrains), Geany, nodejs, express and angular. Git ties the three systems together.

eli_gottlieb 12y ago

Linux Mint on a repurposed 2011 Macbook Pro, at the moment.

robinhoodexe 12y ago

OS X on my laptop. Debian on my Raspberry Pi. iOS on my smartphone.

ilyasjan 12y ago

OS: OS X 10.10.3 Hardware: Macbook Air Tools: Clojure,PHP,Emacs,Intellij Idea.

zserge 12y ago

Thinkpad x120e + Gentoo is the only development machine I run (still looking for a newer 12" thinkpad to replace this one). There is also ubuntu installed in the chroot (for android firmware builds) and a few docker containers with various OSes. In theory I can survive with any OS/platform, since my primary tools are tmux+vim+zsh. I use them for android development (Java, Kotlin), for web (JavaScript, Golang), for embedded systems (C, Lua). So the only two apps that I keep always open is a full-screen terminal and a browser. Probably even Chrome OS would be comfortable for me :)

gh02t 12y ago
> Probably even Chrome OS would be comfortable for me I have one of those Asus Chromeboxes, can't praise them highly enough. I have it dual booting ChromeOS and OpenELEC as a media center and never really intended it to be used as a PC, but I still rather like ChromeOS. With Crouton installed, it's a pretty capable little machine. I occasionally run Steam in Crouton to use the machine as a terminal for in home streaming to my bigger TV.
FlailFast 12y ago
Nice! I'm trying the ChromeOS browser + terminal experiment myself. Just bought a 2015 Chromebook Pixel LS and outside the local storage issue it's a glorious machine. In terms of terminal use, I thought a chroot would be a little heavy handed and I didn't want to get rid of Google's verified boot, so I bootstrapped Linuxbrew and gcc using this guide: https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/wiki/Chromebook-Install-Instructions https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/wiki/Chromebook-Instal... Given that I use vim + bash + go + ruby / python + js + tmux...well, everything seems to work. And it's easily the fastest web browser I've ever used. I tried installing Gentoo Prefix but couldn't get it up and running...think that would be better than Linuxbrew, but for now this seems to suffice. If I run into any roadblocks I'll probably wind up doing the whole crouton/chroot thing, but for now I'm a happy camper.
forgotpasswd3x 12y ago
> Thinkpad x120e + Gentoo I can't imagine running gentoo on that computer. The compile times would drive me insane.

danielmunro 12y ago

OSX for local host, latest Ubuntu for work

bliker 12y ago

HW: Retina Macbook Pro SW: OSX for Photoshop and Illustrator, Sublime Text for C/JS/PHP plus XCode. I also run Windows VM for all sorts of engineering software (Siemens NX, ANSYS, LabView, Multisim).

S4M 12y ago

OS: Debian Hardware: Dell laptop Tools: Emacs, python, javascript, git; playing a bit with C, Clojure, Haskell.

pinaraf 12y ago

Debian sid, what else... On desktop, laptop, servers... Tools : QtCreator / KDevelop for C++, Netbeans for Java, vim or Kate for everything else

gh02t 12y ago

Primary workstation is a custom tower with Arch Linux. Secondary is a dirt cheap laptop with Fedora, home server is FreeBSD. I also have a monster headless workstation at my job that runs CentOS. Oh, I forgot... I have one of the newish Dell Venue 8000 Android tablets too. I got one of those folding Microsoft bluetooth keyboards to go with it and it makes a pretty capable little SSH terminal that I can actually be productive on as well. I mostly use Python, C++, Fortran and Haskell. For C++/Fortran, I mostly use the Intel compilers or Clang. I do my coding in Vim, with a few plugins to add the IDE features that I actually use. I use a mix of Kdb and Idb for debug work, both are really awesome. I use i3 pretty much exclusively and urxvt+tmux, with some bits and pieces from KDE (e.g. Dolphin).

gabordemooij 12y ago

I run CRUX Linux with OpenBox on a BTO X86 i7.

ytimoschenko 12y ago

OS X on MacBook Air, OpenBSD on servers. I use Make, Vi, and interpreters/compilers of various programming languages (Erlang, Golang, Clojure, Perl, etc). I also use most of generic software from OpenBSD base.

Apreche 12y ago

Thinkpad with Windows 7, but I develop in virtual machines running Ubuntu.

thejosh 12y ago

I've been running Ubuntu as my primary desktop since the end of 2005, tried a multitude of other distros but always come back to Ubuntu - it just "works", the font rendering is excellent out of the box, package management is superb, yadadyadayada. I run XFCE, use to run LXDE but found XFCE a lot nicer. Python/PHP, learning Go.. also learning docker. My main PC is a Haswell i7, 512GB 850 Samsung SSD for Linux, 840 (512GB) for Windows, 32GB RAM, nVidia 980GTX, I sometimes play games (not as much as I use to), and the desktop is a pretty fantastic option. I run a MacBookAir 2013 (i7/8GB RAM) with Ubuntu as my primary desktop, it's fantastic hardware the only limitation I run into is when I need to run everything at once (which is rare).

seesharp 12y ago

OS: OSX 10.10.3 (sometimes Windows 10 with Parallels) Hardware: rMBP 15" (2014) Tools: IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, Sublime Text I mostly do front-end webdevelopment with AngularJS. I also use a lot of Java and some C# for my CS study.

jug5 12y ago

Home: Arch on an 3rd gen Lenovo X1 carbon Work: Xubuntu on a 2nd gen Lenovo X1 carbon At home I use vim with the usual plugins for my work, and at work more atom with vim-mode and whatever else necessary.

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charlieegan3 12y ago

OS: 10.10.3 Hardware: BTO 2012 rMBP 2.6 GHz i7, 16GB, 512GB Tools: Rails, Sublime Text 3, iTerm, Tower, (Spotify :D)

lion0 12y ago
Was it worth it getting the 16GB of RAM? I'm thinking of getting the same myself.
- azurelogic 12y ago
  If you're buying any laptop for development use, it's worth getting 16 GB of RAM if possible. You may not need much more than 8 GB right now, but inevitably your need will increase over the next few years, and many laptops aren't expandable anymore.
- nitai 12y ago
  16GB for sure. This is one of the reasons why I stay with Mac. There are not many PC laptops with more than 8GB RAM.

jsherer 12y ago

Just recently picked up a Lenovo Thinkpad and immediately installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on it. It's quite unfortunate that the bar is set so low with Linux laptops that the thing I enjoyed most is that everything worked out of the box, including wifi, suspend/hibernate, and external monitors. Hopefully this trend continues with more laptop brands so more people can enjoy the freedom in choosing an OS that works best for them without having to worry about whether or not standard features work without difficulty.

m-i-l 12y ago

Home: Ubuntu 14.04 for both desktop and HTPC (MythTV). Both are custom builds. Became exclusively Linux at home around 12 years ago, when I built a cheap PC for £160, then had to pay £200 for a Windows XP licence, but couldn't install it because the CD was covered in holograms which the ultra-cheap CD drive couldn't read. Work: Desktop is Windows 7. Believe it or not I'm one of a handful piloting Windows 7 - most are still on Windows XP.

lordbusiness 12y ago

OS: Mac OS X (But likely switching to Ubuntu soon) Hardware: Retina MacBook Pro (But XPS 13 Dev Edition will be next) Tools: Atom, Git, whatever toolkits necessary for my current working language. Edit: formatting and typo

wglb 12y ago

Linux, moving to FreeBSD, OpenBSD on routers, Windows for some legacy products, OS X. Toolchain mostly lisp, bit of ruby, C, python (My Windows NT box finally died)

Mister_Snuggles 12y ago

Work is MacOS X and Windows 7 on a Retina MacBook Pro. Windows is used for PeopleTools, but everything else (SQL Developer, NetBeans, etc) runs in MacOS. Home is Mac OS X on a 4-year-old MacBook Pro (which, after replacing the HDD with an SSD, feels a lot faster than you might expect) or Kubuntu 14.10 on a ThinkPad x131e (working Linux, cheap, and rugged were the main requirements when I bought that). Personal projects generally involve Python or Java, so a text editor and NetBeans are my tools of choice.

QuantumRoar 12y ago

OpenSuse for work (not my choice), FreeBSD on a private server, OS X for the laptop, pfSense (based on FreeBSD) on a firewall, Raspbian for the little things, and I just ordered a NAS that will be running FreeNAS (also based on FreeBSD). Vim, Git, Intel compiler, Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Mathematica. Python for scripting, Haskell for analytical mathematical stuff, Fortran for high performance, Mathematica for fiddling around and sanity checks. A total of 224 Xeon cores and 5TB of main memory. For my private hacking I just use a laptop and whatever language seems to fit the purpose. Also, I'm about to buy a desktop computer and I was thinking of using Arch for that.

LukeB_UK 12y ago

Work: Linux Mint 17.1 on a Samsung NP350V5C using Sublime Text 3 (and various plugins) developing Javascript and PHP Home laptop: Linux Mint 17.1 on an Asus UL30A (it was free) using Sublime Text 3 (and various plugins) developing Javascript and Node.js Home PC: Dual boot windows 8.1/Linux Mint 17.1 on a custom tower. Windows is for playing games and developing unity games, linux is the same as on home laptop Edit: I also use GIT across all of them

rshetty 12y ago

OS: Yosemite Hardware: Retina Mac Book Pro 16GB Tools: Vim, Ruby, Rails, Git, Haskell, Javascript, RubyMine.

kevinherron 12y ago

OS: OS X Yosemite (10.10.2) Hardware: Retina MacBook Pro Tools: Java, IntelliJ, Git, Mercurial

sayems 12y ago

Work: Mac OS X Home: Arch Linux Hardware: Custom built desktop Tools: Android Studio for Android Development, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate for Java Development, Web-Development, and MySQL Workbench,

yodsanklai 12y ago

OS X 10.3.3 Mac mini (late 2012), MBP 13 (2014), at work imac 27 (2014) I use mainly vim with plugins (notably youcompleteme, syntastic, ctrlp) for programming in various languages. Python, C++, OCaml, Erlang, Go. I try to keep everything synchronized with unison and git. I like Mac OS because it works out of the box and I really hate spending time configuring things. But mostly, I'd be fine with any OS. The only thing that ties me to Mac OS is music recording. I couldn't get the same experience with Linux or Windows (not last time I checked a few years ago).

RexRollman 12y ago
Do you mean OS X 10.10.3?
- yodsanklai 12y ago
  yes :)

rogerbinns 12y ago

Main system is current Ubuntu on a system assembled from parts from Frys. Core i7 3770 with 32GB of RAM (the most the MB can take), using Intel graphics and a 3 monitor setup. Development is mostly Python and C. There is also a similar laptop, a Mac mini, VMs for Windows, dual boot for Windows (games), and a large collection of various Android and iOS devices.

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woohoo7676 12y ago

OS: Windows 8.1 Hardware: Dell XPS 15 (2014), custom build desktop. Toolchain: C#/Xamarin/ASP MVC w/ VS2013, Git for SCM

bovermyer 12y ago

I use Mac OS X at work and on my web dev laptop (MBP). I use Windows 8.1 on my gaming PC. I have a Chromebook (CR-48) lying around collecting dust. Most other PCs in the house run Windows 7. My dev stack is... complex. I use PHP, MySQL, NodeJS, JS/jQuery, Python, and Mongo at work. On personal projects I use Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL, and raw JS. In both worlds I use Sass. I use a lot of Ansible. Go is very interesting, and may become important to me in the future.

M4v3R 12y ago

OS: OSX 10.10 Hardware: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13", late 2013 r.) Tools: Depends on a project I'm currently working on. Mostly MacVim for my editing needs (with a heavily modified config and a bunch of plugins: NERD Tree, Command-T, linters, etc.), but I also use XCode from time to time for iOS work. I do projects in Meteor, Angular JS and PHP.

wantab 12y ago

OS: FreeBSD Hardware: Desktop (custom build) Tools: The usual Unix-tools

sunasra 12y ago

OSx(Yosemite) in Macbook pro late 2013 IDE : Intellij, Atom Git

JamesBell 12y ago

OS: Windows7 on a Zenbook OS: Ubuntu/ChromeOS on a Acer C720 Chromebook Tools: Angular, BS3, PHP, slimPHP Agonizingly close to being able to use ChromeOS but primary client uses a VPN that ChromeOS refuses to support.

ntw1103 12y ago

work: windows 7 i7,32GB ram, notpad++, netbeans, visual studio. personal:QubesOS/windows7 dualboot on a Thinkpad T430s i7,16GB. Netbeans,nano,notepad++. my business: pfsense for the router. servers are running XenServer and/or Opensuse but I intend to switch some of the infrastructure to free/openBSD.

zumtar 12y ago

I use an ATIV Book 9 Plus ultrabook (13.3" LED QHD+ 3200 x 1800) as my main machine - the HiDPI screen is stunning and it is something I couldn't live without now. Up until a week or so ago, my OS was GNU/Linux Debian Jessie, my DE was Cinnamon and/or i3wm (depending on how I felt). A week ago I switched to Fedora 21 as I have to get back up to speed with RHEL for a work project. I am now using Gnome 3.14.2, and to be perfectly honest I am pleasantly surprised with the entire experience. Development tools: vim, gcc, python, opera-beta. Communication tools: utox and irc. I also run another machine that sits on a different VLAN that I use for skype, the machine is locked down with SELinux and firewall rules both inside the machine and on the Ethernet switch and router, I also use this machine if i need to view any flash content.

jaegerpicker 12y ago

OS: Mac OSX Deploy to CentOS Hardware: Mac Book Pro retina latest refresh deploy to aws/rackspace Tools: Java, Spring-mvc, JS, node and gulp, Intellij, chrome, emacs, sublime, tower git, kaleidoscope, Sequel Pro, hipchat, paw, zsh-ohmyzsh, iterm, Swift Just changed positions prior to that it was the same except Python, Django, and Go instead of Java and spring-mvc.

greggyb 12y ago

Work: OS: Windows 7+, Windows Server 2008+ Hardware: Consistently 4+ workstations and dev servers with varying specifications. Tools: SQL Server 2008+, Visual Studio 2012 with tweaked VsVim. Powershell, Vim and Cygwin. I work in BI consulting, so dev environments and workstations change with clients. Home: OS: Arch Linux Hardware: 2008 Sony Vaio (Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz, 4G RAM, not as bad as it sounds - I have no reason to update this machine until the RAM goes). I don't really do development at home - just trying to learn "real" programming. Vim, playing in Python, Lisps (Scheme and Common), and Haskell currently.

thiht 12y ago

Well I reinstalled my laptop a few weeks ago and I decided do go with Windows 10, I couldn't take anymore Windows 8.1... Windows 10 is what Windows 8 should have been from the beginning, it's an excellent OS. Hardware: Ideapad, Intel i7, 6Go RAM, graphic card geforce 840m Tools: Intellij with Java, Visual Studio with C#, Sublime with everything web related

phatak-dev 12y ago

OS : Linux Mint 17 Hardware : Dell inspiron Tools : Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Git

onestone 12y ago

OS: Arch Linux with KDE Plasma 5 (for servers I use Debian or Ubuntu LTS, whichever is more recent) Hardware: Asus K93SV laptop Tools: io.js, Atom, vagrant-lxc, Ansible, Docker, Git, Mercurial, Babel, ...

davidgerard 12y ago

Xubuntu 14.04. It works and stays the heck out of my way. Whenever I hear the words "desktop" and "innovation", I reach for my revolver. Hardware: whatever the nice thing my employer is providing. As a sysadmin, I feel it is a deep wrongness to spend money on hardware when there are employers for that sort of thing. Desktop is an HP DC7800 (I think) and laptop is a Lenovo X230 (which works flawlessly with free-software drivers).

enzolovesbacon 12y ago

Thinkpad T400, Slackware 14.1, dwm, screen, zsh, vim, gcc, make, git.

talleyrand 12y ago

Chrome OS with Crouton running Ubuntu CLI. My favorite setup of all time.

gtf21 12y ago

- OSX 10.10 on a MacBook Pro, 15" late 2014 (I use my laptop for everything, work and home). - Various servers with Ubuntu / Debian on Digital Ocean. - Atom, Git (Tower/Atom/command line), Node, Python, Docker

paultrott 12y ago

osx 10.10 for design :: ubuntu 14.10 for development :: windows for games

nitai 12y ago

This is a question that comes at the right time for me. I just went two weeks with a Asus UX305 and Ubuntu 14.04. Everything worked out of the box. Beautiful hardware, too. Since I run all my servers on Ubuntu LTS I really wanted to go with Ubuntu Desktop. However, after two weeks I'm going back to MacOS X. Reason is that I'm just way faster with MacOS X. Additionally, and I hate to say this, but it is not the OS alone anymore theses days. Applications can make or break your decision. Something like Sourcetree is awesome, Arq (for backup) is a simple no-brainer. The option to use Time-Machine and re-install a Mac is painless. Dash for documentation simply rocks, Slack as an independent app is very convenient, etc.

romanovcode 12y ago

Windows 8.1 (waiting for W10) Visual Studio 2013 (waiting for VS2015)

maxamillion 12y ago

OS: Fedora Rawhide[0] (XFCE Spin) Hardware: ThinkPad T440s Tools: python, ruby, go, vim[1], git, tmux [0] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide [1] - http://vim.spf13.com/ http://vim.spf13.com/

huehue 12y ago

Home: i7-4770k, 16gb RAM, AMD r9 290x running Windows 8.1. I might be getting an XPS 13 to replace my old laptop. Work: i5, 8gb RAM 2015 MacbookPro running OS X. I develop on Debian VMs (VirtualBox + Vagrant) at work and Ubuntu Server VMs (VMWare Workstation) at home. Almost everything is done remotely, sshing into the dev VM and running emacs there, the only exception being java stuff. Other than VM management tools and Eclipse my client boxes don't have much development stuff installed. Tools: Emacs, Notepad++, Eclipse, Perl, Java, Clojure, Git, Putty/iterm2, Firefox, MySQL, redis. I'm playing around with OCaml but I'm a total noob.

akulbe 12y ago

Everything. OS X for the primary. Linux for 99% of the VMs. Windows, when some application makes it absolutely necessary. Because I'm pretty invested in the Google ecosystem, I can move between them with ease. (using Chrome and Google Drive, and Google Apps for Work, for all my domains) (I also have both an iPhone 6+ and a Nexus 6) EDITED: to mention Chrome & Google Apps