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What I think really lack in Linux is: - Good hardware that is nice to use (look beautiful) and works well with Linux. - A great IDE that doesn't look like shi

What I think really lack in Linux is: - Good hardware that is nice to use (look beautiful) and works well with Linux. - A great IDE that doesn't look like shit right out of the box. I know many can be configured and tampered with, but I simply do not enjoy that enough to go through the pain. Otherwise, my biggest pain and why I definately go back to Windows is that I can't play my games on my machine. Many games still only work on Windows or works much better on Windows due to bad graphics drivers. I really like Linux, I always use it as a server or to host stuff. But in the later years of my life I simply get too frustrated (often with small stuff) to keep using Linux as my main desktop operating system. At work I use a macbook because it has nice to use hardware with desktop software that is more polished than any linux distro but still keep the unix feel.

giancarlostoro 11y ago
Have you given the JetBrains IDE's a shot? There's also Qt Creator for C / C++. Not sure what kind of development you do, but there are some nice IDE's that come pretty out of the box. The only friction is installing them, though in the case of JetBrain you just download it, unzip it, and run it, it adds its shortcuts where needed.
nextos 11y ago
I think the trick is to cherry-pick laptops. There's only a handful of decent laptops in the market that run Linux very well (drivers in kernel, perfect powersaving, ACPI events from battery, etc). My MacBook Air 11 inch 2012 (formerly used by Linus) is pretty good. So were some Lenovos like x220. These days Chromebook Pixel or Dell XPS hold some promise. Also cheap Chromebooks like some Acer and some Asus. I have my eyes on cheap ARM machines for their capability to run blobless (e.g. Asus C201).
- collyw 11y ago
  The keyboard is missing keys (like delete) and there is no button on the mouse. Small things but pretty annoying if you are used to clicking the middle button for pasting. And the battery seems to last about half of the time compared to OSX
  - nextos 11y ago
    I get an _extra_ 10-20 min in Linux vs OS X thanks to powertop tweaks implemented via udev rules and a minimal desktop with a tiling WM and no desktop environment. But I agree on the annoying omissions. I hate no dedicated insert, although shift + backspace works well.
navinsylvester 11y ago
#1 Since you have a liking to apple hw. Ubuntu does support apple laptops so if your heart is with apple hw - give it a ubuntu try. #2 Sublime text, Komodo edit, Netbeans, etc. What is your complaint on IDE front?. #3 This is a post about Linux suitability for development environment. If you wanna play games get one which is more suited and use it for the purpose. Even a dual boot environment. Mixing development environment effectiveness with ability to play games on it doesn't even sound right.

giancarlostoro 11y ago

Have you given the JetBrains IDE's a shot? There's also Qt Creator for C / C++. Not sure what kind of development you do, but there are some nice IDE's that come pretty out of the box. The only friction is installing them, though in the case of JetBrain you just download it, unzip it, and run it, it adds its shortcuts where needed.

nextos 11y ago

I think the trick is to cherry-pick laptops. There's only a handful of decent laptops in the market that run Linux very well (drivers in kernel, perfect powersaving, ACPI events from battery, etc). My MacBook Air 11 inch 2012 (formerly used by Linus) is pretty good. So were some Lenovos like x220. These days Chromebook Pixel or Dell XPS hold some promise. Also cheap Chromebooks like some Acer and some Asus. I have my eyes on cheap ARM machines for their capability to run blobless (e.g. Asus C201).

collyw 11y ago
The keyboard is missing keys (like delete) and there is no button on the mouse. Small things but pretty annoying if you are used to clicking the middle button for pasting. And the battery seems to last about half of the time compared to OSX
- nextos 11y ago
  I get an _extra_ 10-20 min in Linux vs OS X thanks to powertop tweaks implemented via udev rules and a minimal desktop with a tiling WM and no desktop environment. But I agree on the annoying omissions. I hate no dedicated insert, although shift + backspace works well.

navinsylvester 11y ago

#1 Since you have a liking to apple hw. Ubuntu does support apple laptops so if your heart is with apple hw - give it a ubuntu try. #2 Sublime text, Komodo edit, Netbeans, etc. What is your complaint on IDE front?. #3 This is a post about Linux suitability for development environment. If you wanna play games get one which is more suited and use it for the purpose. Even a dual boot environment. Mixing development environment effectiveness with ability to play games on it doesn't even sound right.