Ask HN: What OS are you running on your Macbook and why?

Posted by shincert on Thursday August 25, 2016 @09:39PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm constantly switching between ArchLinux and macOS. I feel so much more at home with ArchLinux. But macOS gives me 12 hour battery life and closing the lid hibernates it properly.

What are you guys running and why?

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Re:Ask HN: What OS are you running on your Macbook and why? by mondoshawan on Thursday August 25, 2016 @10:20PM (#12363917)

Mostly OSX. Seriously thinking about ditching the thing and going and getting a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, though.

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Re:Ask HN: What OS are you running on your Macbook and why? by shincert on Friday August 26, 2016 @09:55AM (#12366243)

Care to elaborate why you're switching?

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Re:Ask HN: What OS are you running on your Macbook and why? by rdtek on Thursday August 25, 2016 @10:35PM (#12363965)

Windows 10 under bootcamp as I do a lot of development for Windows. Strangely Win 10 runs faster on my mac than OSX El Capitan.

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Re:Ask HN: What OS are you running on your Macbook and why? by rakshithbekal on Friday August 26, 2016 @08:53AM (#12365821)

windows 10, runs faster than macOS and now it is better for development than macOS itself and I could do a load of things much better and faster in w10 so I don't really see the point in using macOS.

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Re:Ask HN: What OS are you running on your Macbook and why? by shincert on Friday August 26, 2016 @08:55AM (#12365832)

How's the battery life?

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Re:Ask HN: What OS are you running on your Macbook and why? by rakshithbekal on Friday August 26, 2016 @09:06AM (#12365895)

Its not bad ,gives about the same as macOS. 7-8 hours usually but there was a time when I used to get 12 hours but that was when I just installed w10.

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Re:Ask HN: What OS are you running on your Macbook and why? by josho on Thursday August 25, 2016 @10:22PM (#12363926)

OS X because I don't get paid to futz with my OS to get it working right.

But, most of the time I also have a Linux VM image running to give me a closer production like environment.

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