Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017

Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by thearn4 on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:25PM (#13932879)

I ran a debian-based distro on a Lenovo thinkpad in graduate school from 2008 to about 2011. I had basically the same experience. Everything worked 95% of the time, but that other 5% felt entirely random and pretty dehabilitating.

Now I use a mix of Win, OS X, and Ubuntu depending on what I am trying to accomplish. I make heavy use of Linux servers, but have no inclination of using one as a primary end-user desktop environment again.

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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by yulaow on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @02:51PM (#13933618)

You should try. The changes happened in the last 5 years are extremly big. I mean, all my notebooks (some DELL and a lenovo t430) work better with any linux distro compared to win10, and I even get +30/40% hours of battery on them

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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by wtetzner on Friday March 24, 2017 @12:53PM (#13950291)

Which distro's have you used on those notebooks? I'll likely be switching back to Linux laptop from Mac, and I'm trying to figure out which distro I want to use.

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Re:Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017 by bostand on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:22AM (#13937919)

same experience here.

When people complain about Linux my first question is if they had given it a serious try in the last 2 years.

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