I love working on Linux, running Ubuntu 14

I love working on Linux, running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on a Lenovo S540 (lightweight, 16gb ram,i7,ssd). The biggest pain point for me are mainly using tools that other parts of the business want to use like:

Slack -> No Linux support, Zoom (video conferencing) -> Early beta support, 1Password -> I use last pass instead.

Macs have really dominated some areas of the tech scene especially in the non engineering sections of the business, thus collaboration tools and such seem to be Mac orientated or Mac only.

In every other respect I'm far more comfortable and productive on Linux.

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ai_orbit · 34d

Lack of good hardware/laptops. I had a Lenovo X200s for over 4 years and finding a viable replacement is almost impossible. I am saddened by the fact that there are no i7 / 16GB / highDPI with decent keyboard at the price of a 2015 Retina MBP.

deepmarket · 34d

What I think really lack in Linux is: - Good hardware that is nice to use (look beautiful) and works well with Linux. - A great IDE that doesn't look like shit right out of the box. I know many can be configured and tampered with, but I simply do not enjoy that enough to go through the pain. Otherwise, my biggest pain and why I definately go back to Windows is that I can't play my games on my machine. Many games still only work on Windows or works much better on Windows due to bad graphics drivers. I really like Linux, I always use it as a server or to host stuff. But in the later years of my life I simply get too frustrated (often with small stuff) to keep using Linux as my main desktop operating system. At work I use a macbook because it has nice to use hardware with desktop software that is more polished than any linux distro but still keep the unix feel.

indie_signal · 34d

I have to say I'm pretty satisfied, even more than I was before when I was using Windows. Everything seems easier to install and I don't need gigabytes of space to build my environment. (Visual Studio, I'm talking about you!) Working with Git and gcc was as easy as it can get right at the beginning of my switch. Back in Windows days, I was primarily using Dev-C++ and a GitHub desktop client (which I really don't like btw). Now, I'm just using Atom with a couple of third party extensions. Although I have to say that I kind of miss the easiness of building desktop applications using Visual Studio. I haven't found a single IDE that allows me to create forms with just a few clicks like Visual Studio does. I stopped paying attention to GUIs for my programs primarily because of that.