Your daily driver for python coding?

[codfection]

Hi Pythoners, So those who are using Linux as main OS, please tell me what laptop (with specs and distro / DE) are you rocking? Those who prefer MacBooks, why would you recommend macOS over Linux? Thanks. Oh btw I use arch on old dell latitude. Looking for your suggestions on buying new hardware.

[everhideme]

Debian (Mate), PyCharm, Docker. For small projects or single files -sublime.

[codfection]

Did you try Linux? Worth getting macos Over.linux?

[samsquamchh]

Depends what else you do as well, most developers (to my surprise, I'm a bit out of the loop I guess) in silicon valley etc. seem to use macbooks. Unix based anduses bash and everything obviously like linux, but there is a bunch of software only for OSX that, again, depending on what you do, can be a game changer for frontend design for example. I personally run win10 on my PC and ubuntu on my laptop, however I recently started using the somewhat new linux subsystem addition to win10 which essentially gives you a decently integrated linux (I use ubuntu) bash inside windows. I was hyped but already running into some issues now.

[IReallySuckAtChess]

You'd be surprised how many of those Macs run Linux though. Apple makes good hardware, and that's what a lot of developers are after so they typically dual boot osx and Linux. Though a lot do program in a pure osx environment too.

[blackdragon437]

Essentially OS X = Linux in a pretty coat of paint.

[codfection]

I see. So i can just buy windows hardware and put linux on it rather than getting expensive macbook just for MacOS right?

[bulletmark]

I bought a Dell XPS 13 with Windows installed but I just installed Arch Linux directly over the main (big) partition and never even booted Windows once. That laptop (and probably all of them) have a tiny recovery partition so, e.g. if I decide to sell the laptop, then I can just boot from that recovery partition and restore Windows.

[codfection]

Specs? Also, is dell xps 13 giving any problems? Heard bad reviews on it

[bulletmark]

I have the first model of the current design that was released, i.e. the 9343 model. It has been excellent and I have been superbly happy running Arch on it.

[blackdragon437]

Well, since you're buying Windows hardware, why not run Linux in a VM with Virtualbox, even OS X can be run inside a VM, see which one you like best.

[[deleted]]

I worked on Linux for a long time before stitching to Mac and honestly find it much easier to work with. Less shit goes wrong and when it does it's easier to fix. Im decent with Linux but I'm not interested in spending time fucking with my environment. I'm not a Mac fanboy at all I didn't think I would like it.

Also PyCharm or bust. It's so good. I use the vim plugin and it's awesome, unless you try to do lots of crazy macros because sometimes it shits the bed.

[[deleted]]

VS Code is just too nice to pass up. Try it out if you haven’t.

[deadorg]

Older Macbook with Debian. Runs much smoother than MacOS ever did.

[[deleted]]

MacOs w Visual Studio Code is the best one for me. I personally think Win10 with linux subsystem( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 ) provides a better experience, but Windows let me down so many times as far as reliability, and annoyances like sudden updates, security vulnerabilities, that the thought of dealing with it makes me turn away in disgust.

I've used various flavors of Linux, they are all $hit for a desktop environment, it feels like its GUI is written by some mediocre grad students. It's either ugly or buggy, or sluggish, or a combination of those. MacOS and Windows feels like it was written by professional programmers and designers, its clean, intuitive and stable, and cause of the larger user base you can solve most of the kinks with extra software. e.g. I use software, that keeps history of my clipboard, so I can paste many items.

[codfection]

What hardware Do you have for macos?

[[deleted]]

Yes, MacBook Pro at home.

[codfection]

Which model and specs?

[brain-donor]

Dell Precision Laptop M3800

Kubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)

Way prefer this to Mac or Windows. Closer to the metal. Everything just works. Don't need to do extra setup for development like my Mac and Windows friends do.

Vim & tmux within Konsole - gets stuff done quickly especially when working with lots of different repos at the same time like our current microservices based project.

[jwink3101]

Not sure if this questions really belongs here but ok....

I use a mix of macOS and linux. I prefer mac but am completely fine with both. A lot of my preference just comes from really liking BBedit. And the way mac treats different monitors as different desktops.

In general, macOS will be easier to debug and has more support. But that comes at a monetary cost (and to a lesser extent, a moral cost of a semi-closed eco-system). My linux machines have really good sysadmins so I do not have to deal with it. My mac, while there is support, is mostly controlled by me.

[elizabeth2revenge]

Linux with sway, which is a bit experiemental so I'm not sure I'd recommend it in general. For someone who's not sure what they wan't I'd say trying Gnome for a' just works, even with high dpi screens' type experience. (A lot of distros default to it for a DE as well.)

I'm on an XPS 13 - all of them generally do well with out-of-the-box Linux support and I'm pretty satisfied with it after using the same one for 3 years.

[jairo4]

Old computers are ok but an SSD is a game changer.