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Discussion on: Is using Linux really productive?

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Alex Graham

Real programmers sit in absolute silence, use a wired keyboard & mouse and would never develop in anything other than vi. Perhaps it isn't Linux but your mindset that is the problem sir.

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Alex Graham

For the sake of a useful reply. Also a strong Ubuntu user. Tend to not use snap and install when possible from official repos when possible. I do use a wired mouse & keyboard, on desktop using Rog stuff and Nvidia mo problems. Had very good results with wireless and thunderbolt on the newer Dell laptops. Never a problem with sound but again using an external card and only Spotify.

Everyday environment is docker and Storm. Storm is solid assuming you have the latest release, be careful with your plugins and make sure your underlying system is running fine. Be careful it can really hit your disk up when scanning projects and I imagine given the same base intelliJ might cause you similar issues on massive projects given a lack of resources.

Stick with it. To me it sounds like some of your issues could just be hardware, perhaps grab a cheap dongle for WiFi or Bluetooth. Reminds me of an issue with Pi which turned out to be Bluetooth and WiFi sharing the same hardware, all is good till you try to stream audio.

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Matthew D. Miller

Real programmers use mechanical keyboards, so it's not very silent.

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Alex Graham

Good point ;) they usually tap them pretty hard too from time to time.