Anyone looking for a good Linux laptop should consider:
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_ZENBOOK_UX301LA/
I'm very happy with it. It's something like MacBook Pro specs, in a size
that's a bit closer to MacBook Air.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Duncan Bayne <dhgba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've begun learning RoR but want to know what operating system to continue
>> with that is most in demand in the market? To date I've done most of my
>> development on Windows (which dual boots to Linux which I've not really
>> used). I am considering buying a new Mac for development but wondering
>> whether I ought to be doing my RoR on Linux? Or does it not really matter?
>>
>
> I've done both - several years of Ruby and RoR dev on both Linux and OSX,
> and I can say hand-on-heart that I've experienced much less pain on Linux
> than on OSX.
>
> It's much easier to fully script your setup, so that you can go from a
> vanilla installation to 'all the things installed' with little to no manual
> intervention.
>
> Hardware support is much broader - with OSX you're stuck with Apple
> hardware which, while nice in some ways, lacks the hacker nature (batteries
> glued in, non-upgradable hardware, mirror-like glossy screens ... they need
> to hire Woz back).
>
> Plus Linux is (mostly or entirely, depending upon which drivers you're
> using) hackable, whereas more and more of OSX is proprietary &
> closed-source. The more you have access to, the more you can learn and
> fix. Re. my "there's no such thing as magic" talk of a couple of months
> ago ... I imagine Apple as having large "NO WIZARDRY ALLOWED" stickers on
> their stuff.
>
> If I were you, I'd get a high-end Lenovo (great keyboards, matte screens
> that can be used in less than perfect ambient light levels, removable
> batteries) and chuck a copy of Linux Mint on it. I maintain some (rough,
> hacky) scripts for setting up a Mint-based dev environment here:
>
> https://github.com/duncan-bayne/mint-setup
>
> If you have any questions I'm happy to help.
>
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