What Linux distribution do you have installed?

Question

Ruby on Rails

I want to start learning Ruby and RoR, I got good advice - to install Linux instead of Windows (I wanted to for a long time, but somehow I didn’t dare, and now there is a good reason). They say it's more fun and convenient to work with him.
Actually a question for the ruby ​​community - what Linux distribution do you have installed? (Poppies don't count)

Answer 1

Ubuntu, inside vagrant. And under Linux, it is also convenient to use it, so that it would be more convenient to work with the project as a team.
And you don’t need to switch to Linux - you just use your usual OS.

Answer 2

Usually Ubuntu is installed if you want a more or less usable sparkle. If you want to sit for a day or two and finish everything as you like, you can use other distributions to your liking, although this has not been canceled in Ubuntu either.

Answer 3

Although I am not connected with ruby, and only recently started learning python. I myself switched to Linux literally 2-3 weeks ago, specifically to study python, since this environment, in my opinion, is more favorable to it than windows and nothing needs to be installed, as they say, everything is out of the box, and everything is configured.
I will say that I did not lose anything from the transition, but only gained. Yes, there are few games on Linux, there is no so beloved Zona program with films, and in general there are no most familiar programs, but there are many alternatives. As for games, I only benefit from this, I don’t get distracted by them (after all, for so many years I’ve gotten used to periodically hanging out in games), but I devote as much time as possible to learning.
To be honest, for the first 2-3 days, the idea to tear down Linux to hell and return windows, visited my head stably, once every 10-15 minutes. But I tried to dissuade myself, I held out and I don’t regret it at all. Now there is no desire to return to windows. Linux works, it seems to me, an order of magnitude faster, and it looks beautiful (at least I like it). You can customize it, it seems to me absolutely everything. It just takes getting used to.
In general, here is a very interesting article " Linux is not Windows ", it correctly describes that you do not need to expect from it that it will look like windows.
Of course, the most unusual thing is working with the console and the terminal. For many years of using windows, I opened the command line at most 10 times, and here a day does not pass without it (at least for me).
As a newbie to Linux, I was also interested in which distribution to install, they advised Linux Mint 17.1, I personally liked it, in general, work with the console can be practically nullified in it. A couple of years ago I tried to install Ubuntu, but demolished the very next day. And I don't want to leave this.

Answer 4

I've had openSUSE for about three years now. I use both at work (C++/Qt) and at home as my main system. When I studied Ruby for fun, and then Rails, everything worked fine.
I think that any distribution kit will suit you for the first time. You will work with Linux for a year, and then decide what you need. Well, from Windows you will spit)

Answer 5

Install Vagrant / Docker and inside deploy it on the OS on which you want everything to be deployed (in the case of Docker, it’s not very important at all). It will be easier with debian-like systems, for example with ubuntu.

Answer 6

gentoo, of course. Slackware is too complicated in my opinion. And there are more distributions that do not have a postering infection left (those that are not infected are unnecessary D are clones of slack and gents).
Genta allows you to choose what you need. And do not install any slag. Another plus is that it is difficult to break the gent if it is updated correctly (remember the crustacean, which broke with every major update). And another undoubted advantage is that in the gent you already have all the necessary header files in the system (hello, bubunta!).
In general, for the developer of Genta - the most suitable distribution kit. Yes, and even just for use on a home computer: no pain with sound falling off due to pulseaudio, breaking due to networkmanager's network, and simply not booting due to systemd on the computer! On your computer, you will be the absolute master, and not a passive spectator (as in the case of a bubunta) or a despicable slave (as in the case of a crustacean).

Answer 7

Arch Linux is installed at work and at home, we use LTS Ubuntu as a server OS

Answer 8

vmware workstation + ubuntu

Answer 9

Install a virtual machine, for example virtualbox, and install Ubuntu in it, for example.
If you get used to it, in the future you can safely move to Linux as your main one.

Answer 10

Ubuntu for all deployments has been developed on ruby ​​on rails for 7 years now. You can easily find solutions to problems.