My configuration for Linux is so much of a productivity boost to me that I'm planning to make my next laptop a Thinkpad, just to avoid the hardware issues.
OS X just held me back. It was locking up at 20% CPU and 40% RAM usage, and I could never figure it out. Linux doesn't do that (especially since I threw a bunch of swap space on, now it's incredibly stable)
As for defaults, I find it's faster in the short term to start with defaults and work from there, but it'll just come back and bite you that you're using somebody else's workflow. I start from scratch (for the most part) with Arch, and build my workflow on top.
I've wasted probably two weeks to get my workflow configured perfectly, but now I can spit out code at such a rate that I find myself doing more projects than ever before.
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My configuration for Linux is so much of a productivity boost to me that I'm planning to make my next laptop a Thinkpad, just to avoid the hardware issues.
OS X just held me back. It was locking up at 20% CPU and 40% RAM usage, and I could never figure it out. Linux doesn't do that (especially since I threw a bunch of swap space on, now it's incredibly stable)
As for defaults, I find it's faster in the short term to start with defaults and work from there, but it'll just come back and bite you that you're using somebody else's workflow. I start from scratch (for the most part) with Arch, and build my workflow on top.
I've wasted probably two weeks to get my workflow configured perfectly, but now I can spit out code at such a rate that I find myself doing more projects than ever before.