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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: 16,791
    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

  • RsadeikaRsadeika Posts: 3,862

    Xubuntu, I have tried Kubuntu, it was to overloaded for my needs.

    Ray

  • evanhevanh Posts: 16,791
    edited 2025-10-11 13:27

    @Rsadeika said:
    I have tried Kubuntu, it was to overloaded for my needs.

    I used to manually remove all the bloated PIM packages that were bundled, but in recent years the KDE installer system now gives an option to only install minimal packages and it's then up to the user to later individually install any extras you want.

    Another thing I always do is disable compositing. For some reason compositing, on X11, somehow drops rendered frames producing a display rate max of 30 FPS, often worse, no matter what the game rendering performance is. Officially, KDE 5.x doesn't support Wayland. KDE 6.x with Wayland will turn up with next upgrade so that'll require compositing but I expect it won't have the same frame-rate problem.

    PS: I have /home on its own partition. And two or three small (20 to 30 GB) boot partitions. Makes it easy to do fresh OS installs at will while keeping my prefs intact. Just have to tell the Grub setup where it is, which is usually an optional set of menus in the install process.

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