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by darkstar999 4680 days ago
> Perhaps you should reserve your "challenges" for folks who haven't been there, done that.

Not looking to get into a flame war. You obviously have good reasons to stick with OS X, so I wouldn't try to get you to use anything else. Others, especially web developers, would find Mint more suitable than you do.
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eropple 4680 days ago
"Especially web developers"? I was a web developer (at a fairly you've-heard-of-them company) until August of last year. I do ~10 hours of it a week in my spare time today. Web development was exactly why I mentioned the train wreck that is Swing apps on Linux.
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darkstar999 4680 days ago
I'm talking rails / python / php. I see a lot of developers using OS X just to run Sublime Text and a terminal.
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eropple 4680 days ago
I'm having trouble taking you in good faith if your definition of "web developer" is going to continually shrink in the way it is.

I do PHP and Python as well as Java/Scala. In IntelliJ. Because it's a more comfortable environment for me. Like I said: I used to do the vim-and-terminal thing. I've gone

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