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You could argue that using linux on your machine would improve your insight into the OS used on production machines.
by kristianp 12y ago
You could argue that using linux on your machine would improve your insight into the OS used on production machines.
- stephenr 12y agoThis is what virtual machines are for. There is 0 chance the setup on a developer laptop is going to come close to the setup of a production server.
- buro9 12y agoDev laptops can be bootstrapped, build from Salt/Puppet/Ansible, and made to look extremely like a production server. The difference in the metal is not a difference in the software (unless you happen to be doing something very specific to the hardware), and the difference in desktop environment basically does not matter. It's very easy to have laptops that are similar to servers... stick Debian on your server, and (X)Ubuntu LTS on your laptop.
- stephenr 12y agoWell already right there you've introduced a different environment - Ubuntu is based on Debian sure, but it's not like Debian and Ubuntu package versions are ever in sync. With Virtual Machines your developers can use an environment that is almost exactly the same as production, and still use whichever desktop OS they are most productive in.