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Ridiculous. If you don't want other people do read or use your stuff don't put it on the web.

This is a story of somebody not really knowing what he does.

This is a single twist of fate. It has no meaning except for the individual. He just doesn't want to keep up any more. His decision. But it has nothing to do with Apple.

If you want to spend your time being your Owncloud admin use it. Security updates, finding reasons for Error 500 after updates and version upgrades - there's always something to do, you never will be bored.

If you just want a solution to sync data with your server use bittorrent sync.

That's because people don't figure out that every Linux can run every WM or desktop environment anyway. So they need a seperate distribution just to switch from Unity to KDE...

OSX has a big plus: It's reliability, I've used it for 10 years as primary OS and it never lost a piece of data or ceased to work when I needed it most (as the deadline approaches). As long as Apple doesn't switch to AppStore-only and I have a CLI to compile what I want I will stay on OSX as a primary OS.

Being a Linux user since the 90s I always have Linux Desktop machines around. Switching to Ubuntu will be a loss in reliability for you coming from OSX. I used it since Dapper Drake, in the last years every half year upgrade broke something, especially in Unity and Gnome.

Obviously Ubuntu are more into making strange things on their own then providing a reliable linux. Ubuntu is the "odd man out" in Linux and you won't gain anything but upgrade pain two times a year from switching to Ubuntu. It isn't "real Linux" anymore. So if you're going to switch to Linux, don't use Ubuntu, instead use Debian Stable or Arch.

If you're on a reliable distribution Linux will work fine.

That is true of course only if your hardware is supported without "just compile a sweet little kernel module and it works fine". No, don't do this. Don't rely on such hardware or be prepared to spent the weekends fiddling around to make your graphics adapter or wifi work.

If it works you will find more or less everything you need for your computing needs as a developer. But you're going to miss the nice small apps you learned to love in the OSX indie developer ecosystem. You even won't find a nice client for Twitter in the Linux Repos (most of them haven't seen an update since Twitter switched to OAuth and the API and won't work anymore but are still in the repos), if you're into ADN there isn't anything but an ugly cross-platform client.

Regarding such small things like clients for social networks you will switch the OSX culture of "it has to be nice and working or nobody won't use or buy it" against "somebody made something that works somehow but looks ugly and hey if you don't like it make it better it's open source".

IMHO WP is not complex enough to have a necessity to develop with it in Vagrant.

That's what I call "overtooling". Keep simple things simple and preserve complex toolchains for complex tasks and environments.

Nice example for the recent trend of "overtooling".

Let's make a science out of running something simple as a Wordpress that runs out of the box everywhere where PHP/MySQL is available.

okay, will be gone in one year from now. or one and a half. always the same story with that kind of acquisitions.

IMHO Steven only trades the risks. The laptop has no data on it, can't be stolen, great. But doing work, you have a lot of things to work that are not for the public.

But your (linode- or whereever)server, 24 h available and exposed on the net, has a latent risk of being "0wned". And there goes your stuff.

IMHO the risk of your server being 0wned is much greater than losing your notebook (or being stolen), so this model is the unsafer choice.

Manning's a hero.

Of course it's always whatever works best for you. But it's interesting to see what you win and what you lose before adopting cool things you hear from hero programmers in a podcast. ;-)

Although I don't see me using nothing more than a tmux session exclusively in the future, I already adopted some things for my server work and I'm looking forward to the pragprog tmux book.

That's a valid point. But a lot can be done with conditional configurations om vimrc and gvimrc, my vim runs fine and nearly identical on OSX, Linux-Fluxbox-Sessions and on servers. IMHO we must stay flexible enough to use "the best" of the platform we currently working on, otherwise we are left with the lowest common denominator of a tmux in a terminal and must do some strange things to even use the clipboard in the right way(as heard in the podcast).

For example, I have Command-T opening FuzzyFinder in ssh-Sessions and in Gvim, but use the lovely Peepopen in Macvim.

Interesting Episode. But I really don't get it why I should trade the benefits of a real GUI-Editor like MacVIM with crippling myself in the terminal. What's the gain in switching editor- and shell-windows with tmux-Shortcut against using Command-Tab and the (customizable) shortcut for switching tabs in iterm?

Feels a little bit like nerdery for the reason of nerdery.