Ask HN: What is the best Linux distro for a development laptop?

Re:Ask HN: What is the best Linux distro for a development l... by beambot on Saturday January 07, 2017 @04:50PM (#13346829)

But it's a dev machine, right...? So you just nuke the install and then `git pull` all your key configuration files and dev environment, and then you're right back up and running. Same as if you switched to a new machine or one whose harddrive died. I still don't see the problem.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best Linux distro for a development l... by jcoffland on Saturday January 07, 2017 @08:01PM (#13347603)

Reinstalling is a sorry solution. I haven't had to reinstall my dev machine in about a decade.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best Linux distro for a development l... by beambot on Saturday January 07, 2017 @09:16PM (#13347862)

Where do you buy your HDDs? You're sitting a couple standard deviations beyond MTBF.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best Linux distro for a development l... by jcoffland on Sunday January 08, 2017 @02:58AM (#13348818)

I have upgraded to an SSD but just copied the OS and boot sectors to the new device.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best Linux distro for a development l... by Declanomous on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @02:47PM (#13368261)

One of my friends asked me how often I reinstall my operating system.

I told him I haven't installed a new OS on my primary PC in 10 years. I just DD it from one drive to another.

DD is by far the easiest way of making bootable media on a flash drive as well. I use that method to create install media for my other computers.

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