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Latest and greatest OS for Propeller development?

VonSzarvasVonSzarvas Posts: 3,615
edited 2025-10-09 16:28 in General Discussion

Wondering what people are using these days in the non-Windows camp ?

I'm finding some computers (desk & lap) I use fairly often are not suitable for Win11, but appear to me impressively capable even without TPM 2.0. Generally they have i5 ~2.5GHz processors with minimum 8GB; mostly 16GB, all SSD.

I feel sure I've asked this before, but any up-to-date recommendations on a stable, trouble-free linux flavour that you're using with things like SpinTools IDE, VSC, Netbeans, Wine and Chrome ?

I'm quite comfortable with linux command line (running a bunch of mostly Debian servers as I do), but really want a lazy GUI experience for the work & home computers :) So I'm not spending more time on admin than getting on with the job!

I think Mint was one of the favourites last time I looked.

Comments

  • I'm newly running Mint (Cinnamon) with Spin Tools IDE. and had run Kubuntu for the previous 15 years, also worked fine.

  • evanhevanh Posts: 16,779
    edited 2025-10-09 23:11

    I'm using Kate editor on Kubuntu. Compile with plain Flexspin via Bash history. Loadp2 for download and terminal, Konsole's scroll-back is big feature here. Makes life liveable. :) printf() is both telemetry and debug. Occasionally check compatibility with Pnut on Wine, but its graphical terminal lacks scroll-back. :( Use Firefox on the forums.

  • KUbuntu here, too

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