Used all three major OSes. HDMI not working is an extremely common problem on MacOS. every event I go to has either only VGA or HDMI that doesn't work after three adapters between thunderbolt and HDMI/VGA/etc. Networking can become a problem in MacOS and Windows and when it stops working on these OSes, the only thing to do is restart your computer.
MacOS also freezes a lot if your computer is about 3 years old. Won't even consider using macbooks older than that. Used Android studio and Robomongo on a couple year old Macbook and it would keep freezing now and then. The most painful 3 months on the job. So, problems exist on all OSes. The grass isn't lush green anywhere, it's a pale green everywhere.
I have been using Ubuntu on the desktop and laptop for 5 years and it has been stable. There have been problems, but I haven't run into anything show stopping yet. I haven't been doing this long but I believe that the key is to think about all the different ways things could go wrong and ensuring you handle a reasonable amount of them, without going too crazy about it.
eg: set up your demo on a digital ocean droplet (I do this when the demo doesn't have any GUI). create a throwaway SSH key and keep the private key handy (say email) and add the pub key to the droplet. if your laptop completely crashes, you still have your demo. slides backup is completely standard no matter what OS you have. so you have handled one of the worst possible cases :)
Anyone here who would be able to provide even a bit of offhand experience with issues like these or a pointer to _where_ the problem exists would be highly appreciated!
I searched for articles and I could find a large number of articles from December 2013, and even a research paper from then.
The next major event seems to have happened in April 2016-July 2016 when Comey said that he tapes his camera, Zuckerberg's photo with the taped camera and mic was posted on his Facebook account, and there was an all-time high of privacy and security related discussion.
MacOS also freezes a lot if your computer is about 3 years old. Won't even consider using macbooks older than that. Used Android studio and Robomongo on a couple year old Macbook and it would keep freezing now and then. The most painful 3 months on the job. So, problems exist on all OSes. The grass isn't lush green anywhere, it's a pale green everywhere.
I have been using Ubuntu on the desktop and laptop for 5 years and it has been stable. There have been problems, but I haven't run into anything show stopping yet. I haven't been doing this long but I believe that the key is to think about all the different ways things could go wrong and ensuring you handle a reasonable amount of them, without going too crazy about it.
eg: set up your demo on a digital ocean droplet (I do this when the demo doesn't have any GUI). create a throwaway SSH key and keep the private key handy (say email) and add the pub key to the droplet. if your laptop completely crashes, you still have your demo. slides backup is completely standard no matter what OS you have. so you have handled one of the worst possible cases :)