[Cialug] good linux distro for web dev?

[Scott Yates]

While its true that Ram, CPU and disk space is cheap nowadays, the surface
tablet is not as beefy or as expandable as a desktop (or even some
laptops), so I thought it might make sense to think about those things in
this instance.

I made much the same observation as Dave Hala did.  Any more I am and try
to remain fluent in Linux, OSX, and Windows.


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:

> 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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