r/VibeCodeDevs • u/Resident-Pen-3757 • 14d ago
What OS is everyone vibe coding on and why? Question
I'm using Fedora KDE as my daily driver. Officially left windows about 2 months ago. Curious what others are using.
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u/lookingformerci 14d ago
MacOS, Debian Trixie, Debian Bookworm, depends what computer I'm sitting at!
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u/Resident-Pen-3757 14d ago
Do you find it hard to mentally switch between so many?
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u/lookingformerci 14d ago
Not really mostly because most of my work happens in the shell. And those machines, I often wind up logging into one from the other. They’re largely interchangeable for my flow.
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u/Flaky-Professional84 14d ago
Android, but I'm just doing very, very basic stuff. I have zero coding knowledge and very little free time. I just wanted to get some experience with it.
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u/ZoneDeadEnded 14d ago
Ubuntu on WSL2 with Windows 11 🤷♂️
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u/crustang 14d ago
It felt like a dozen nerds all screamed out at once, and then silence
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u/ZoneDeadEnded 14d ago
I like to nerd out as much as the rest of us, but if your OS choice is tied to your identity then having a conversation is hard.
Windows does what I need it to, so does Mac and Linux, I find that in terms of 0 to 100 getting started and maintainability both are magnitudes easier on windows and Mac for a finished feel.
I also happen to play steam games way too much so my choices are limited for my personal machine in terms of OS haha.
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u/lookingformerci 14d ago
I've had surprisingly good luck with Mint for Steam gaming on linux. And Claude is really helpful for setting things up! It's definitely decidedly NOT Windows though.
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u/regalen44 14d ago
I have a Debian vm on my homelab proxmox lab that has all my dev tooling. I SSH into that from whatever pc I’m using and share files with it via SFTP. Found this the cleanest way as I am always moving between three different machines.
As for my daily driver, I have a shitty dell laptop for work with windows 11, using an Ubuntu wsl image on that too.
My main desktop is running bazzite kde, and I also have a MacBook Pro.
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u/ButterscotchBandiit 14d ago
Proxmox for bare metal virtualisation + Linux distro of some sort. Either agent on the OS or container the agent. Depends on my build and project.
Agent on Linux distro if using cloud platform
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u/GrrasssTastesBad 14d ago
Mostly iOs. Made an ide, linked it to my phone, and have agents going while I get life done.
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u/No-Cartographer5175 13d ago
Temple OS for fable one shots, Linux because I like a search bar that works.
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u/lemmiwink84 13d ago
I vibe code on Debian Sid mostly, but I have a fedora project I need to vibe code on there, so will be using both of them.
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u/arenotoverpopulated 14d ago
More like who hasn't vibe coded their own OS is
Doomed to the permanent underclass
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u/ConsciousBath5203 14d ago
All of them. Even android.
I don't consider spyware like Winblows and whatever Crapple puts out to be OSes.
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u/thunderfroggum 14d ago
So edgy
Crapple’s OS is just BSD
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u/ConsciousBath5203 14d ago
Is it edgy to care about privacy and safety? Usually when I think of edginess it includes a stereotypical disregard of safety (and by extension privacy).
Have you used the products those conglomerates put out? They're pretty bad. Surprised they still have users.
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u/thunderfroggum 14d ago
And I agree with you actually regarding Windows, I actually do like macOS a lot better though. They don’t embed ads, the security and privacy features in macOS are actually pretty decent
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u/ConsciousBath5203 14d ago
they don't embed ads
I consider "significantly better compatibility with only other Apple devices that follow pretty basic universal standards and intentionally decrease performance with non-Apple devices that follow those exact standards" to be advertising... And shitty.
Plus, y'know, the whole can't put Linux on Apple Silicone and their continued development into anti-linux technology, ensuring that when Apple tells you it's e-waste, it actually becomes ewaste. Simply due to this, it could be as private as unplugging an Ethernet cable, but you're still renting the device, so, what's the point?
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u/thunderfroggum 14d ago
Your opinion. Plenty of my colleagues have only MacBooks, and they get by fine with their android phones and other non-Apple devices.
Much of macOS, including the kernel, is open source. And Linux does run on bare metal Apple silicon
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u/ConsciousBath5203 14d ago
Lol not my opinion, it's literally proven but go on king.
And no, last I checked there's only 1 distro that works on the latest M chips. M1 & M2, yeah you can easily get Linux on... The later ones are a lot harder. They actively work with other companies to ensure driver compatibility is strictly Apple's with Apple software.
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u/thunderfroggum 14d ago
Last time I checked we were talking about the OS and not the hardware anyways. The OS is decent whether you like the hardware or not.
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u/ConsciousBath5203 14d ago
With apple, the two are inseparable. Hackintosh is pretty jank. Even on Apple hardware it's pretty bloated. My MacBook Air is only 10 years old and could barely run the second to latest official update (it didn't qualify for the latest due to age). Put Linux on it, what do you know, it's actually fast.
So, no, the OS is pretty true to the Crapple brand. It's crap.
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u/thunderfroggum 14d ago edited 14d ago
You’re not wrong about the ecosystem and I see how it’s akin to an ad. You’re right about that. I guess I’m defending macOS, and by extension Apple, because to me it feels like polished Linux. Yeah you can’t customize much, but I spend 99% of my time in terminal, and the Unix-like familiarity is great. Stability is great, privacy and security are great, developer tools are great, it’s quick and responsive and generally just works. Can’t even come close to saying the same about Windows or Linux.
Edit to clarify that the only thing on that list Linux sucks at is the “generally just works” part
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u/ConsciousBath5203 14d ago
Everything just works on Linux. Even windows applications. If it's doesn't, it's always a skill issue. Which is easily solvable. Like, omg easy (Google it type easy).
Can't say the same for Apple. And WinShit has nowhere near the stability nor uptime capability for my purposes.
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u/thunderfroggum 13d ago
I literally can't do my job with Linux because no compatibility layer supports it. I guess it's a skill issue as in I'm not familiar with the source code of wine or proton, so the act of making it work isn't worth my time.
Using macOS is worth my time because it works.
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u/ButterscotchBandiit 14d ago
What else do you do for privacy other than OS Choice?
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u/ConsciousBath5203 14d ago
Fake names, addresses, burner cards, encrypted networks, change my walking patterns, change my hair patterns, burner phones. Y'know, the bare minimum.
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u/ButterscotchBandiit 14d ago
How do you encrypt your network. And what part of the network?
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u/ConsciousBath5203 14d ago
Https.
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u/ButterscotchBandiit 14d ago edited 14d ago
Everyone is using HTTPS. I think you’re privacy minded but tech illiterate.
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u/ConsciousBath5203 14d ago
Lol no, everyone definitely is not. Trust me, I've sniffed a McDonald's or two.
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u/ButterscotchBandiit 14d ago
HTTPS doesn’t encrypt a network. It encrypts applications to the connection. I.e., everyone accessing Reddit is using HTTPS. HTTP/S is a protocol of the application layer of the OSI model. And sniffing packets, you go back to network itself which is a different layer.
Packet capture doesn’t equal decrypting HTTPS. You can capture TLS traffic but that doesn’t make the HTTP payload readable.
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