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Ask HN: What OS are you running on your Macbook and why?

7 points by shincert ↗ HN
I'm constantly switching between ArchLinux and macOS. I feel so much more at home with ArchLinux. But macOS gives me 12 hour battery life and closing the lid hibernates it properly.

What are you guys running and why?

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mondoshawan
Mostly OSX. Seriously thinking about ditching the thing and going and getting a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, though.
shincert
Care to elaborate why you're switching?
josho
OS X because I don't get paid to futz with my OS to get it working right.

But, most of the time I also have a Linux VM image running to give me a closer production like environment.

rdtek
Windows 10 under bootcamp as I do a lot of development for Windows. Strangely Win 10 runs faster on my mac than OSX El Capitan.
[dead] shincert
How's the battery life?
rakshithbekal
windows 10, runs faster than macOS and now it is better for development than macOS itself and I could do a load of things much better and faster in w10 so I don't really see the point in using macOS.
shincert
How's the battery life?
rakshithbekal
Its not bad ,gives about the same as macOS. 7-8 hours usually but there was a time when I used to get 12 hours but that was when I just installed w10.