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Surpisngly there are no threads discussing various Linux Distros. I started a thread like this on P99 but most people on there run Windows so it wasn't that great of a discussion. Hopefully this doesn't turn into a flamefest.

Currently running Linux Mint 16 but I am considering ElementaryOS, Arch Linux, Gentoo, and/or Linux From Scratch. I've also considered BSDs but the community there seems to elitist for my tastes.

edit: hopefully there isnt a thread already like this that I missed. I did search and only a few posts had any discussion of Linux.
 
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feel free to discuss desktop environments as well. I am using xfce atm. It seems to run alot smoother than cinnamon which is what comes packaged with Mint.
 
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Tenks

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CentOS on our dev boxes. I use OSX at work. I find OSX to be my favorite development environment.
 
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I forgot to mention since we do enterprise storage we do dev work on everything: Windows, Linux (SLES, Ubuntu, etc), and some weird OS' that some of the business units develop (usually linux based). I get pretty good exposure to a wide variety.

No fucking robots though.
 
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Win7 on the gaming machine and at work, Ubuntu on my netbook (yeah people still use this stuff) which is a websurfing / banking device for us mainly.
 
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Celestein_sl said:
Same, it's pretty much the good parts of linux combined with the good parts of windows imho. Pretty interface and a full terminal.
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I was apprehensive when they switched me from Windows to OSX at work but I couldn't be happier. Once you realize you can actually do anything and everything in the terminal the OS is, I feel, actually more powerful than Windows for development. I still don't know how to do all the stuff via the GUI in OSX but I sure as hell know enough Unix to do whatever I want to do.
 
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Tenks_sl said:
I was apprehensive when they switched me from Windows to OSX at work but I couldn't be happier. Once you realize you can actually do anything and everything in the terminal the OS is, I feel, actually more powerful than Windows for development. I still don't know how to do all the stuff via the GUI in OSX but I sure as hell know enough Unix to do whatever I want to do.
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I never thought I would do it in a million years but I traded in my Dell for a Macbook at work last summer and I loved it so damn much I bought a new one for personal development at home. I have a screaming fast desktop but won't have any part of it outside of gaming anymore because I like OSX so much for development.
 
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A little off-topic but you guys running OSX are using a Mac I assume? I've always consider switching over to Mac because every PC I've ever built has never met my expectations in terms of speed and performance. Despite having 2.2ghz dual core cpu, 4 gigs of ram, and a 1gig nvidia video card, my computer still seems to run like shit. even EQ1 lags like crazy when i turn everything to high with spell effects and forget about playing games like EQ2. Eve for instance, I have to play on the lowest settings for it to be playable. WTF its like no matter how much I upgrade, I never see a difference.

Ahh sorry I am ranting at this point. Just wondering if you guys are using OSX with a Mac or PC and if you think its worth switching over. Like right now I am using Eclipse to learn Java and it loads and runs very sluggish. Feels bad man.
 
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So if you were going to invest in a good computer for development would you buy a mac with OSX or build a PC and install OSX as the OS?
 
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Fedora - I've run all the major Linux distros and quite a few minor ones over the years only multiple PCs and just today I ditched the last non-fedora install (mint) due to shitty wifi support. I've found it to be the most stable and least likely to break shit (though it still sadly happens over version changes). I used to run CentOS but abandoned it when they fell 1-2 major versions behind RHEL. Ideally I'd like to run a rolling release distro like Chakra or Manjaro but I'm gun-shy after how frequently more "stable" distros break shit.

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Celestein_sl said:
I'd buy a Mac, I don't really know anyone who uses a Hackintosh for anything serious, because they come with a whole bucket of stability and updatability issues. Frankly if a Mac was simply out of budget, I'd just use Linux instead rather than a Hackintosh.
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This right here. Hackintosh is nice and fine to play around with but for real world use I would advise against it. The macbook air just got a refresh, so you can find last years model which is practically identical to the new one except for a slight non perceptible cpu boost.

If you go with Linux then your best bet is getting a mainstream distro like Ubuntu. Stick with LTS as it will offer the best stability at least in the future but not straight out of the gate. Unity is a bit of a bust but I got used to it. I install docky, which gives you an osx type icon bar albeit a bit low res and takes a lot of the pain away. The color scheme sucks donkey balls though.
 
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Traak_sl said:
A little off-topic but you guys running OSX are using a Mac I assume? I've always consider switching over to Mac because every PC I've ever built has never met my expectations in terms of speed and performance.
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OS/X will not feel any quicker than Windows. Windows is fucking fast and no Linux or OS/X machine will ever feel as "snappy" as Windows on equivalent hardware.

I'd say fuck Eclipse/Java and go with Visual Studio and C# if you're learning programming.
 
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