+2 years slugging in a vm.
Developing with out bash is just unnecessary work.
My productivity has more than doubled. easily. I manually type passwords half as much and when I do that is to access Microsoft services.
2fa wastes a huge amount of time.
Because nothing that needs 2fa is scriptable.
My IDE is Windows (VSCode or Cursor); but I'm also using ChatGPT in the browser and various Linux command line tools (connecting through Windows Terminal to WSL Redhat).
There should probably be a fully hybrid option in the poll.
> Clarification: the operating system where e.g. your IDE runs on
If you're developing on a Linux VM that you connect to via a browser tab opened from your Windows laptop, you're developing on Linux for all intents and purposes.
That is, Windows was not doing enough for you so you switched to Linux for dev tasks.
By the same token, if your IDE is running in WSL, for all intents and purposes you're developing on Linux. A virtual machine, sure, but the virtualized OS is a Linux variant. Because installing the IDE on Windows itself was not doing enough for you.
I program on Windows + WSL 2 e.g. and I have no idea how to develop on windows and barely used powershell in my life, but I know the ins and outs of Linux.
I'm not saying you're wrong and I'm right, I'm merely stating that we have different definitions and AFAICT there's no ISO standard saying what qualifies as developing on Linux and what not.
Cloud based development and browser hosted environments would certainly be worth measuring. I imagine the numbers are tiny compared to other platforms.
Arduino IDE probably counts as something with decent numbers. Wokwi also makes for an interesting candidate in that area.
Mac is too expensive, Windows 11 is cruel and unusual.
My primary complaint so far: The green color LED of the magsafe connector is not the same green as the LED on the caps lock key.
MacOS is just the sweet spot of great desktop + great unix-style devbox.
However, I went back to linux on my personal laptop (nixos on my case) and I am pleasantly surprised how many things now just work.
The only thing that still annoys me is the laptop not sleeping properly and therefore using too much battery power when idle.
It has made great strides on the last two or so years.
On top of that I've been locked out of my machine and Apple ID and they just kept sending me emails that in some weeks they were going to reset my password, and they sent me those emails for 2 months before I got access to my apple id and machine again, proof[1].
They just kept not obliging the "2 weeks" (which is already mad when I've given you my secret password and I've verified my email and phone already).
And they did not respect the two weeks 3 times in a row!
That is beyond disgusting and Apple has never got a single $ from me since, I only own a MBP I use on the move because a client has sent me an M3 Max with 48 GBs so it made no sense to at least not use it.
Me too, but Tahoe is hideous. I hope they revert back to something sensible, or I'm going to move to Linux full time.
NixOS has a declarative configuration that is simply key=value for most use cases. Whatever you configure stays configured, and you can also rollback when doing dramatic changes e.g, migrating from Xorg to Wayland takes 2 min and changing 1 LOC.
It's in the FAQ.
This is by far the best option to isolate and easily create development environments that I found.
I connect to the containers from VS Code running on Mac OS.
I mostly work on my desktop which is Windows + WSL 2 with Ubuntu and use a MBP on the move.
Have you ever tried Krita or Pinta?
our customers all run linux in production too, so it's very easy and natural to develop and test the software in its usual environment (although i wish my laptop had eight times the ram to match).
my ide is linux: https://plan9.io/cm/cs/upe/
I retired the last Windows machine last year.
Firefox on Linux, though, is not working very well. It keeps hanging during long typing inputs. No CPU or disk usage, just stuck. And it uses so much memory that the OOM killer sometimes kills it.
I was never a Linux fanatic. It's just that I considered an operating system with ads unacceptable. I rather liked Windows 7.
There are so many things that are just plain worse on Windows when it comes to coding: messing with WSL, constant driver updates, every Windows link opening in Edge etc.
Haven't tried Linux for a while but maybe it's time.
Basically all the bonuses of Windows re: gaming, with a great developer experience (like Linux/OSX).
The prime annoyances are:
- exposing a port to the entire LAN (for local phone debug) is non-trivial
- I imagine Android or phone dev might be a bit harder re: simulator, luckily I don't do this
- dev that spawns native windows would by default spawn through some WM layer with X11 or something (and they are laggy)
I’ve never been able to get used to default Linux key bindings, and never been able to customize them to feel quite right.
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