The new MacBook

Re:The new MacBook by mark_l_watson on Monday March 09, 2015 @07:32PM (#9174855)

I dual boot my old MacBook Air between OS X and Ubuntu - really nice because some software development tasks are just easier on Linux.

(Off topic, but a good tip: buy a 64gig memory card and always keep it in the memory slot with a file system friendly to both Linux and OS X - there are cards designed to fit in flush on MacBook Airs. This lets my old 128gig MBA comfortably support dual boot, and the shared file system on the card is handy.)

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Re:The new MacBook by babuskov on Monday March 09, 2015 @07:43PM (#9174906)

I'm curious which tasks you find easier? I was a hardcode Linux user before I got Mac, so I had to try it. Four months later, and I never boot into Ubuntu anymore because everything works equal or better on OSX.

Am I missing something?

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Re:The new MacBook by mark_l_watson on Monday March 09, 2015 @08:10PM (#9175027)

Good question. There is quite a lot of software (dev tools) that are trivially installed with aptget, but not so easy (if possible) with homebrew.

I am mostly retired now, but I am working on a commercial product, and still write the occasional book, and advise consulting customers - that is my excuse for experimenting with LOTS of open source projects. If it is easier to check something out on Linux, then I take the minute to reboot.

That said, when developing I mostly "live" in IntelliJ (mostly for Clojure and ClojureScript, a little for Java and Javascript) and running IntelliJ on OS X (or even Windows 8.1) is nicer than on Ubuntu(because of trackpad issues).

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Re:The new MacBook by eropple on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @09:59AM (#9177727)

> If it is easier to check something out on Linux, then I take the minute to reboot.

YMMV, but I just run a VM. Fusion's plenty fast on my 15" rMBP and with 16GB of RAM I don't notice at all.

I have a Windows Boot Camp partition and rarely actually boot into it--I usually just run that in Fusion, too.

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Re:The new MacBook by pointyer on Monday March 09, 2015 @09:29PM (#9175406)

I found that using brew to install GNU tools and replace Apple's FreeBSD tools really made my transition a lot easier. Now build tools don't randomly break because of some unusual command line incompatibility between OSX and Linux.

Annoyingly at the end of the day, I just want a Unix OS with working drivers, and that can run photoshop. Linux doesn't quite cut it (no matter how much I love it).

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Re:The new MacBook by gcr on Monday March 09, 2015 @08:57PM (#9175251)

Hm. Which tools aren't easy to install with homebrew? I find it has pretty broad coverage of most of the command line tools I need, and it's reasonably easy to compile other packages from source if you need them.

Of course your needs are different from mine. Just curious.

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Re:The new MacBook by jfeser on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @12:12AM (#9175983)

OS X doesn't support Valgrind or GProf. That's enough for me to keep a Linux VM around. Additionally, I've found that software is often easier to build under Linux.

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