What OS do you use for development?

Do you mainly develop on single OS or multiple OS on separate machines?

If you work with multiple OS on a single machine, do you prefer to use dual boot or virtualization tech like VirtualBox, WSL, etc?

Comments

[Adrian Emil Grigore]

I run two VPS-es. An OpenBSD and a Void Linux one. I connect to them from a Windows computer.

[peter279k]

I use Ubuntu, a Linux distribution a lot.

[Afshar]

I am using Ubuntu, but it not very easy. The team is using Windows. Some of tools they use does not work properly on Ubuntu. Some others does not exists in the Ubuntu.

[Louis Low]

Make the Windows software run hybrid on Ubuntu by using Virtualbox and or WINE. But I never find any difficulty looking development tool for Linux.

[Afshar]

You make me less frightened. Almost all people around me are using Windows. Sometimes I feel a bit isolated. I use LibreOffice while people use Microsoft Office. People use MS SQL Management Tool while I have no other choice than SQLCMD in command line. This list is more longer.

[Sanket Agarwal]

You also use office.com if you want Microsoft services.

[darrentmorgan]

Yeah I agree with this. LibreOffice just doesn't cut it for some of the things I need to do. Office online is actually really good.

[Mike Bybee]

If you need virtualization, KVM is more performant than Virtualbox. It's worth a little extra study to set it up, especially if you have an extra graphics card that can take advantage of GPU passthrough.

[Louis Low]

I would like to try on KVM one day. The GPU passthrough is an attractive feature to me. But Virtualbox works fine, the VM no lagging or choppy graphic on Adobe PS/AI. Just these two Windows softwares I have been using.

[Nishchal Gautam]

For database, use jetbrains datagrip on Linux systems

[bimlas]

I used Windows 7 + Kubuntu dual boot, but it was very cumbersome to have to switch between operating systems due to different features. I’ve also tried Linux running in VirtualBox for a short time, but it’s not effective in any way (it eats up a lot of resources, I don’t even get everything working in it, etc.).

Now I use only Linux Mint XFCE for work and dev (I realized that not only Windows but also KDE is redundant for me), Windows only for gaming with non-Linux friends.

[Aaqib Nazeer]

Ubuntu Linux

[gukandrew]

Manjaro Linux XFCE edition. On work laptop as well as on home PC.

[Banji]

Pop!_OS(Linux)

[Brian "bits" Olsen]

Work dev: Mac.
Play dev: Ubuntu.

[Duru Chidozie]

I use ubuntu 20.04 now.
Previously i had settled for windows 10/ubuntu 20.04 until i realized it was a herculean task switching between OS.

[Pouya]

All of my work is on MacOS.

[Syed Jafor ⚡]

By the way I use arch.

[Madza]

Lol 😂😂

[reilg]

I'm surprised this is the only Arch comment on here xD

[Syed Jafor ⚡]

Coz it's not that user friendly but once you master in it you will fall in love.

[Corentin Bettiol]

I use Xubuntu.

[Louis Low]

I married to Linux Debian (Ubuntu) for almost 20 years. Using it for embedded, desktop, and web development. But, I still have Windows running Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator in Oracle Virtualbox.

[Pacharapol Withayasakpunt]

Just curious, how much RAM, CPU do you allocate to Windows in this case?

[Louis Low]

I will very honest with you. I only allocate 1 Core CPU and 512MB RAM for that Windows VM. Everything running smoothly and no graphic chopping at all. I never ever shutdown the WinOS. I use the Virtuabox Save State feature. The VM need few seconds boot up the WinOS and I straight away using only Adobe PS/AI. Then, the VM closing is also take few seconds. I've been let the settings stays in this way and using it like forever. My laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad X1.

[Val++le]

Ubuntu with i3wm as window manager. For me it is the most effective and productive way to code and i use linux fulltime. For work, for gaming, for fun coding projects for game dev:)

[James Moore]

At work we currently use Windows with a virtual machine called homestead. We use this application called vagrant to interact with it, bring it up and tear it down provision it etc and virtual box.

We have a want to find an alternative were thinking wsl2 and docker for windows in the future once we can spend some time learning and getting the setup right for our team. Probably early 2021.

Preferably we all had Macbooks (OSX) and could use something simple like Laravel valet but its just not on the table and doesn't quite meet our team needs. But it sure would be fast.