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syzygy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 9:24 pm But he does.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08 ... ux-kernel/
(Yes, it runs Linux, but a macbook is a macbook.)
‘’Oh, and part of it is that I got the machine for free,’ said Torvalds, ‘I’m really a technology whore.'
5 reasons why I hate macOS so much that I avoid using my M1 Mac Mini
Linus Thorvalds own words on his Macbook usage -syzygy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 9:24 pm But he does.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08 ... ux-kernel/
(Yes, it runs Linux, but a macbook is a macbook.)
vim, bash, gcc, make, gdb
I even use Linux for gaming.
None. Just a text editor with syntax highlighting, such as Xed or Notepadqq. In very rare cases, I may resort to command line gdb for debugging.I am curious, which IDE do you guys use on LINUX (if any)?
This is copied (without attribution) from a 7-year old article.wickedpotus wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 6:52 pmLinus Thorvalds own words on his Macbook usage -syzygy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 9:24 pm But he does.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08 ... ux-kernel/
(Yes, it runs Linux, but a macbook is a macbook.)
"Not that I've used it for any real work, I literally have only been doing test builds and boots and now the actual release tagging. But I'm trying to make sure that the next time I travel, I can travel with this as a laptop and finally dogfooding the arm64 side too."
Although we do not usually imitate the great gurus, it is always good and fun to know the habits, equipment, etc ... that gurus use, gurus like Richard Stallman, Mark Shuttleworth or Linux Torvalds, among others. Recently Torvalds has indicated which laptop he uses for his travels and moments of mobile programming.
This laptop model is quite curious because has Ubuntu as an operating system (not Asahi) and ... no, it does not have Unity or Gnome or KDE but it does got cinnamon, a desktop that was created for Linux Mint, a distribution that is based on Ubuntu.
First of all, Linus Torvalds emphasizes that he uses his desktop computer daily to run and work on the kernel, but when he lectures or goes on a trip, he uses his laptop, a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop which is optimized to use Ubuntu. This equipment has a high price but it also has some interesting features that makes it so good or better than the Macbook Air itself.
Dell XPS 13 Developer Laptop ...
On this computer, Linus does not use the default desktop He does not even use Gnome since the latest version does not quite adapt well From the old desk to the reduced screens (we must not forget that the laptop has a 13-inch screen), in this case Linus Torvalds uses Cinnamon as desktop.
Obviously FPU should read GPU here.These days, when he's on the road, Torvalds is using an Apple MacBook Air with an M2 processor. On this hot new machine, he runs Fedora Workstation 36. (...)
Of course, it's not perfect yet. For example, the code doesn't support the M2 FPU, so Torvalds can't do 3D graphics, but "I don't need games." Ironically, that also means some GNOME 40 graphical effects, such as the screen dimming, don't work, but "I like it that way, it makes the display more snappy. I may turn those off on my other machines as well."
I guess the minimalists in here really work only with terminal/shell/console/CLI - git from the command line works fine for me.
Vim is in my fingers. I write all my programs/documents/texts in Vim.