I use a MS Surface Laptop 7 with Ubuntu running on WSL. VSCode seems to perform really well, much better than my previous Macbook Air M1. But ARM on Linux is just not as good as ARM on M1.
aviagarwal1212
CharlesO
All my setups are on windows 10 and 11
Main:
Core i7 6th gen, 32GB ram windows 10
VScode
New:
Alienware 18 M2, RTX 4090, 64gb ram, windows 11
Vscode
Each still gives sub optimal elixir experience, bit since im developing for clients on windows server, that’s the only option i have for now.
All setups run ms SQL server, as thats the same used for clients
I use Ollama on the alienware for local LLM tests,
but most effective code assistants are paid grok3 and openai chats.
Also paid copilot is gives sonnet 3.7+ vscode which is very helpful
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ken-kost
A workstation? More like a space station. 
I got a strong computer I rarely use, I should utilize it like that. If you got any resource to share for that please do 
maybe it motivates me to start that project.
I got a pretty cumbersome ThinkPad I bought carelessly:
Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11950H @ 2.60GHz 2.61 GHz
Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.7 GB usable)
It’s strong but so cumbersome, I actually prefer small and slick.
I do have an Lenovo XPS from previous job which I still use, that’s slick.
Thinking rationally I should’ve made a mac switch long time ago. Maybe one day, maybe one day…
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sanswork
I type on an M1 MBP but all my code is sitting on a random OVH dedicated server in a datacentre near me. I don’t even know the stats off hand, I delete it and create a new one every so often when there are deals.
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dimitarvp
Just curious, have you tried Claude 3.7? It’s pretty good.
EDIT: Oops, I just saw this, sorry:
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pierrelegall
I use this machine from early 2018:
- Host: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 5th (2017)
- CPU: Intel i7-7500U (4) @ 3.500GHz
- Memory: 16Gb
- GPU: Intel HD Graphics 620
- Screen: 14’, 1920x1080
…and I’m still satisfied because of:
- best laptop keyboard I know from my point of view
- just enough sized touchpad, with physical top buttons which are SO great to click with the left thumb from my experience, hard to think doing without today
- lightweight (1.1kg), and a 14’ screen for a laptop is the perfect fit for me
- 4+ hours on battery, new battery can be found for ~50€ (I changed once in 7 years)
- 16Gb of RAM, which is a minimum today for some development tasks
- no hardware compatibility issue on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu and Archlinux distribution tested)
- works well with my DELL K17A Deck Station with it’s USB-C port for charging
Second-hand of this laptop can be found for cheap on the internet. I did a search at the moment I write this, and I found one with the same specs at 240€.
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mudasobwa
Creator of Cure
❯ inxi
CPU: 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics (-MT MCP-)
speed/min/max: 1186/400/5137 MHz Kernel: 6.11.0-18-generic x86_64
Up: 19d 7h 55m Mem: 21.86/30.63 GiB (71.4%) Storage: 953.87 GiB (31.5% used)
Procs: 448 Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.35
Ubuntu Linux, asdf, latest stable erlang, master elixir.
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D4no0
I don’t think anybody cares, especially since most people fill their laptop with stickers and it looks like they found it at a dump 
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I personally got the air m1 only because this is finally a thin laptop that has a great battery life. I also like that it doesn’t have a fan, my desktop fan really gets on my nerve sometimes. I’m not a apple fan and if lenovo can make a similar performance notebook, I will buy the next one from them as I don’t like how limiting the macos is, especially with the current US politics.
I’ve been using firefox for the last 5+ years, but from what I understand they recently sold their soul to devil, just as any successful corporation. Since a lot of functionality that powers firefox is OSS, there are forks out there that remove all the tracking that comes with firefox these days.
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paulsullivanjr
I’ve been Mac only since about 2008.
My current machine:
2023 14 inch Macbook Pro M2 Max
32 GB RAM
12 cores
GPU (38 cores)
HD 2GB
Very happy with it, my last Macbook Pro lasted 9-10 years, hopefully I get 9-10 years from this one as well. Last time I used Linux was running Slack 7 years ago.
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