Choosing an operating system?

egyptForce2018-10-18 22:00:45

Operating Systems

egyptForce, 2018-10-18 22:00:45

Friends, for some reason, there is a need to move to a new OS. I don’t want to switch to win10 even under the threat of death, so the choice was between osx and linux. Advise which would be better? The computer is used exclusively for front-end development. I ask because all my life I have had experience only with win, and what it is like on other OSes, I have no idea.

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OnYourLips, 2018-10-18
@egyptForce

Try it and find out.
I chose win10 for home and ubuntu for work. OS X didn't like it very much.

iMaximus, 2018-10-19
@iMaximus

Mac OS, I advise you to buy a macbook pro and forget everything else like a bad dream. Most of the developers I know, regardless of direction and language, use it.

Anton Spirin, 2018-10-19
@rockon404

OSX and no compromises.

Anubis, 2018-10-19
@Anubis

For everything except games, I choose and recommend makos

SubGANs, 2018-10-19
@SubGANs

Linux, you can configure anything, free. Not a lot of crap, if you understand what you are doing. At the same time, you will gain experience with the console and an understanding of the work, you will be able to work with a real server, almost all of them are on Linux. It’s hard to tell by the choice of the distro, here you just put it and see if you like it or not, first something simpler, obviously not Gento or Arch)

Orkhan Hasanli, 2018-10-19
@azerphoenix

I am using Windows 10
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 3 Cinnamon

Alexander Semchenko, 2018-10-19
@0xcffaedfe

Install MacOS, hack our everything, set it and forget it.
p/s/ MacOS is free.
p / s / s / Mountain software, at least paid, at least free, at least cured.

JorJeG, 2018-10-18
@JorJeG

At work, they gave out a desktop with win10, it seems like a good thing to get used to hot keys, but why don't you like it?
And since 4 years I've been sitting on a poppy and I like everything. As for the laptop, the macbook has a great touchpad, which seems to me better than a mouse.

xmoonlight, 2018-10-18
@xmoonlight

Manjaro XFCE

CityCat4, 2018-10-19
@CityCat4

Quite a strange choice. The target audience for these axes is almost radically different:
makos are used by those for whom it is not a problem not only money for the makos itself, for a laptop, for all the programs that will be installed, but also for all personal belongings - chargers, adapters, bells and whistles - in general, everything is paid and everything is under Apple's control.
Linux is used either by those who, to varying degrees, run away with anonymity and security (which is useful to a small and medium extent) or by those who want it for free (and these people often intersect)
Neither the first nor the second, as a rule, have a need return to Windows - except to gamble - with games everything is fine only in Windows.
What do I have - you ask?
Answer: at work Calculate Linux Desktop 17

# uname -a
Linux sentry 4.14.52-calculate #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 10 16:04:49 +07 2018 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

At home - Windows 7 (yes, where without it, you need to play somewhere :DDD)

delfer, 2018-10-19
@delfer

Linux is needed only if you absolutely understand that you need any of its (OS) unique features. For all other cases, macOS is a great choice.

Mikhail Petrov, 2018-10-19
@mihacoder

At home I use Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon for development. I advise.

Pavstyuk, 2018-10-19
@Pavstyuk

If it is exclusively for frontend development, then it is absolutely not advisable to buy a poppy beech for this. Expensive development will turn out. Linux frontend has absolutely everything you need. I prefer: ubuntu/xubuntu, Adobe Brackets, File Zilla, inkscape, trimage... All for free on a simple cheap laptop and workstation. I haven't used Windows at all since 2010.

itgraine, 2018-10-21
@itgraine

Definitely MacOS, preferably a MacBook Pro 15, is convenient in that you can take it anywhere, you can work with at least three monitors if you need a large screen. For a long time he rushed from one OS to another and settled on MacOS. Linux is a good thing, it’s just fire for development, but then the time comes and you realize that there is trouble with psd, and psd in the front-end is a very important topic. Win 10 is also a good OS, it seems to me the best of all branches, but again, this is Windows. If you are seriously engaged in front-end development and this is your bread, then it is better not to save on the tool, because the time will come anyway and you will understand that you need to take a MacBook.