Is Ubuntu a stable development environment, or does it lack support compared to a Mac?
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Ubuntu is certainly a stable development environment. Depending on what kind of work you are doing, you might find Macs to have better tools. Obviously for iPhone development you would want to use a Mac. Ruby developers tend to like textmate, which is only available on Mac OS X. However, I do lots of Ruby development on Ubuntu without a problem. Like anything, it depends on the project you are working on, but in general I would say Ubuntu is very developer friendly.
I do Ruby, Scala, Java, Android, and C development on Ubuntu on a daily basis. I have a Mac as well, but don't code on it nearly as often.
dbyrne
2010-05-10 15:00:11
what editors do you use?
Blankman
2010-05-10 15:59:22
I've used komodo, kate, vim, emacs, gedit, eclipse, and netbeans at various times.
dbyrne
2010-05-10 16:54:36
why do you prefer ubuntu over mac?
Blankman
2010-05-13 14:49:41
One reason is that I do a lot of my coding on a netbook, and I am not into the whole hackintosh thing.
dbyrne
2010-05-13 15:05:34