[Cialug] good linux distro for web dev?

[Dave Hala]

I ran Rhel ws and various versions of Centos for nearly ten years as
my primary OS up until about two (3?) years ago.  I then switched to
Windows 7 as the primary (host) OS. The reason? Simplicity and
lazyiness. It was much easier to run the windows applications I needed
to run on windows and then virtualize the Linux machines.  Why?  No
hassles or any weird incompatibilities, No wasted time trying figure
out some obscure bug or trying to find a work around for something
that doesn't work.

Ram, CPU and disk space is cheap nowadays, so "wasting" resources
running windows is a mute point.

Its bittersweet to see how stable and hassle free W7 has been.



On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley
<daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> Why would you be already using RAM and CPU to run Windows? When i do web
> development Windows certainly isn't involved.
>
> And Sublime is still available for Linux, as far as i know. I almost
> bought a copy until i realized it isn't feature-complete (no printing
> support). I still check in on it every 6 months or so though.
>
> On 2014-08-29 at 11:32:50 Scott Yates wrote:
>> Personally I would stick with a server (no GUI) linux install and use
>> windows as the "window manager".
>>
>> You can get a ssh shell into your linux vm, and edit files in Sublime
>> for instance.
>>
>> The point being:  You are already using the ram and cpu to run
>> windows, so make the most of it.
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