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Discussion on: Beginner Devs Should Use Linux... Maybe

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Jan Ehrhardt

I believe operating systems don't matter that much anymore. When you buy a computer, just use what's on it. When you are looking for servers, go for cloud and build on containers. Let hardware and OS be someone else problem 😉

When you are new to coding focus on how to write good code and work effectively. But don't waste your time with installing your own OS.

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Ranieri Althoff

Let me guess: you are on Mac, right?

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Jan Ehrhardt

No, I am using a Linux laptop myself.

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Ranieri Althoff • Edited

Huh, weird to hear "when you buy a computer, just use what's on it" and "let hardware and OS be someone else problem" in that case, we Linux users have a long list of issues with computers not coming with our preferred OS and hardware not available/poorly supported due to corporate policy. But I guess I get much more annoyed than you by that :P

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Jan Ehrhardt

I bought a laptop designed for Linux.

To be honest, I have gone through installing Linux myself many years and I have used a Mac in the past as well.

I find Linux important. But things have changed (WSL 2 on Windows, VS Code devcontainers, k8s, AWS Lambda) and installing an operating system and dealing with hard ware problems is nothing developers need to know anymore 😉

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Ranieri Althoff

Sweet laptops. And with Coreboot incoming :)

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Charles Clinton Pustejovsky III

How do you like it? I was looking at System76s Laptops for personal use.

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Jan Ehrhardt

It is nice and does its job. The quality is great.