I can only applaud the author for switching to Linux. Developers using Linux will develop for Linux and we will all be better off. What exactly reasons are, are of less importance.
I really tried several times to switch completely and it's not easy. My bigest gripe is that even with graphics acceleration firefox and chrome are still sluggish in certain aspects and also productivity shortcuts are missing on linux. I tried different flavors and just couldn't make things work. It can't be my everyday machine yet.
If someone would make distribution focused on developers, that would be the best things that happened to linux. Do I really need to install git as package and get stupid office packaged? Zsh and gvim and emacs out of the box.
You should check out OpenSUSE which lets you specify which packages you want when you're installing it. You just select the appropriate categories like "Web Development" and it installs a selection of appropriate packages.
I will check it, thank you. However what I was talking is a little more customization then that. If it is dev build, it should link to github, start with zsh etc.
I really tried several times to switch completely and it's not easy. My bigest gripe is that even with graphics acceleration firefox and chrome are still sluggish in certain aspects and also productivity shortcuts are missing on linux. I tried different flavors and just couldn't make things work. It can't be my everyday machine yet.
If someone would make distribution focused on developers, that would be the best things that happened to linux. Do I really need to install git as package and get stupid office packaged? Zsh and gvim and emacs out of the box.