Windows 11

Notepad (new)

Co-pilot

ChatGPT Agent to prompt copilot for me.

(This is a joke)

Arch -> i3 -> terminator -> tmux -> nvim.

Nvim is IDE and vim for quick edits.

LXC/incus and podman containers

Usually use Debian for server administration but have recently been using fedora and rocky Linux and other rpm based distros for their easier use of podman configurations (quadlets). I don't really recommend using fedora as a server (unless it's in an incus container) but I got into it as CentOS was deprecating and the podman systemd setup was catching on at the time and fedora was handling it the best at the time.

Dropped out of GitHub for the most part and getting acclimated with codeberg and forgejo.

Use librewolf for browsing and firefox-developer-edition with many profiles for testing and development. Qutebrowser for reading documentation.

Linux (Debian) with neovim. Telescope and Treesitter and the big plugins I use but I use a bunch of other smaller ones as well.

At my last job I did a bunch of Rust, this job I do mostly Go.

Arch Linux, hyprland/quickshell

Kitty/konsole

VSCodium (+ a very few plugins) / Kate

Lmde7, nvchad set up with some linters and autocompletion.

Arch Linux (BTW) is my main/dev OS, but also Windows 10 VM for certain projects.

For simple scripting in any language: VSCodium

PyCharm, Android Studio for projects in specific languages.

For other full projects: VSCodium

As for testing/deploying projects, I have a QEMU dev VM that's connected to my IDEs using shared folders running basic Arch with fresh install of KDE Plasma.

Plugins mainly consist of QoL features, linting for certain languages in VSCodium, themes, etc.

It varies a bit, but

OS: Win11

IDE: Jetbrains IDEs (Rider, intellij, Webstorm) with a side of notepad++ and vscode, primarily for notes, Snippets and misc file types

Shell: PowerShell 7

Git: builtin for jetbrains tools and otherwise my own custom PowerShell wrapper on git cli

Linux Mint. No IDE -- I just use xed (a fork of gedit) + gnome-terminal, both of which ship with the distro. Only plugin I use regularly for xed is "Code Comment" which lets you comment/uncomment blocks of code quickly.

Emacs clients in alacritty terminals on GNU Guix. I am used to vi-keybindings so I use evil-mode.

Fedora Kinoite with VSCodium (Flatpak), both for work and my own stuff.

Also a few toolboxes with different compiler versions for some older projects.

I mostly do .NET and PHP stuff.

neovim, neovim, neovim

MacOS and Panic Nova

Doom Emacs on Arch with Plasma.

At work, windows with jet brains products. Then docker with Ubuntu server.

At home its popos with vim. Sometimes docker, sometimes not.

Work: RustRover on MacOS Personal: RustRover on Bazzite

Mainly language support plugins: Python, .env, mermaid

For work, a Mac and vscode. I don't love vscode but it's what everyone uses.

Well, some of them develop on windows with like notepad++ and it's kind of a nightmare. There's no ci/cd, linting, or testing, so whenever I check out someone else's branch it's full of red squiggles.

My personal is pop!_os Linux where I'm also using vscode because I'm too cheap to pay for pycharm.

Linux/Sublime Text/Konsole

Private: Arch, sway, nvim with too many to remembet plugins in foot
Work: Windows to Google Cloud Workstation, JetBrains

Linux + IntelliJ

I also use VsCode because I like its text editing better.

I'm a:

• Gamer
• Full stack web dev
• Android/iOS/MacOS/Windows Dev

So I have a lot of machines

Machine 1

• Purpose: MacOS/iOS app builder/publisher
• Usage: 100% work
• Location: Work
• OS: Modified MacOS Sequoia
  • Sequoia to avoid the glass interface disaster that Apple released
  • Uses custom window manager built in hammerspoon because fuck macos's window management
  • Modified firmware so Caps + IJKJ = Arrows
• Shell: ZSH
• IDE: VSCode

Machine 2

• Purpose: Personal computer
• Usage: 90% games / 10% work
• Location: Home
• OS: Modified Windows 11
  • All the ads and AI bloat is removed but it requires increasing maintenance to maintain
• Shell: ZSH through WSL Ubuntu
• IDE: VSCode

Machine 3:

• Purpose: do everything on the go
• Usage: 50% games / 50% work
• Location: Wherever
• OS: Modified Windows 11
  • All the ads and AI bloat is removed but it requires increasing maintenance to maintain
• Shell: ZSH through WSL Ubuntu
• IDE: VSCode

Machine 4:

• Purpose: Disposable environments to test new things
• Usage: 100% work
• Location: Work
• OS: Kubuntu 25.10 (Current plasma version is great so far)
• Shell: ZSH
• IDE: VSCode

Also:

• Android Tablets
• Android Phones
• iPads
• iPhones

Future:

• Helix
  • I want to learn Helix's keyboard workflow
  • Helix's lack of extensions has held me back.
    • Helix has been working on extensions for a while though and I'll re-evaluate it once it does and the community builds the needed extensions
  • Zed has some helix commands, so I may switch to that from vscode to get helix commands + extensions.
• OSs
  • I want to reduce my windows 11 maintenance
  • Held back by anti-cheat games (PUBG, then Helldivers 2, and will try Arc Raiders these holidays, potentially Marathon next year)
  • I'll experiment with KDE / Cosmic / Niri in 2026.
  • If no anti-cheat games have captured my attention in 2027, I'll switch another one of my personal machines to Linux

Debian, awesome wm.

For work I use IntelliJ

For personal projects in Rust wezterm + Neovim + mix of different plugins

Arch, i3, IntelliJ, VSCode when I'm not in Java.

VSCode (on windows) with Remote Development via SSH extension to Ubuntu or RHEL depending on the task

Kate on Debian.

Too many people using VSCode. At work on Windows I was using it at work (on Windows) but got disgusted with myself and switched to Kate. On Linux I tried VSCodium but the Flatpak was soooo slow, bloated, and crashy... I'm just sticking with Kate on every OS.

Languages: Julia, Python, JavaScript, PHP

Win 11, WSL Ubuntu, VSCode (into WSL), Git Graph, Rust stuff, typescript stuff

All dev is in WSL. Windows native for games and Firefox and chat apps

At work window 11 - powershell - coder - Debian - tmux - nvim

At home (nixos|arch) > tmux > nvim > most used aside of standard LSP and co, neogit, mini.files, trouble

Windows 10 with all dev work done in Ubuntu using WSL. Using vscode with the wsl extension.

At work:

• WSL
• EMACS
• evil-mode, lsp for whatever language, org-roam

Work: Windows + Rider/WebStorm/etc (I used the IdeaVim plugin before but found there were too many rough edges)

Home: Debian or OpenBSD + vi or Pluma. I deliberately keep it simple. A terminal, an editor Ctrl+Z, make, fg, that kind of thing. I'm tired of fighting IDEs to get out of my way. Let me type!