Which linux distro for a laptop in windows environmet?

Posted by Dev er dev on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Dev er dev
Published on 2009-07-27T14:56:52Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 9:41 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 588

I just got new laptop at work. What would you recommend as a linux distribution for it?

All other developers are working under windows, and use windows tools. I'm currently using ArchLinux, but want to change it.

I don't want to waste time configuring wireless, windows network shares, network pritners, projector, etc ... I want this stuff to just work, while still having sane and stable development evironment and tools.

Is Ubuntu a good choice for this? I use gentoo at home, but don't think it is a good match for work environmet.

EDIT: Note that we are working on cross platform apps, and deployment platform is almost always linux. There are very few windows apps that I have to use (like MS Project). It is just that everything else is windows centric.

I use linux because I feel more productive with it, even if I have to dual boot to edit MS Project files.

© Super User or respective owner

Related posts about linux

Related posts about linux-distributions