Operating system for engine development?

[ehenkes]

I use MS Windows 11 and MS VS 2022 with clang (LLVM). It works fine.

[Viz]

win 10 mingw, also pretty okay.
Literally anything not apple related is pretty good, although with distributed networks even apple will do just fine.

[Patrice Duhamel]

I'm using Linux Mint, I started Cheese on Windows but now I use it only for compiling and testing before release.
Almost all I need is already installed by default, no need for a complicated and slow interface, I'm using the default text editor and the command line.

[Joost Buijs]

For program development, I primarily use Windows 11 with Visual Studio and CLang (LLVM 18.x). I find Visual Studio much more convenient to use than the tools available under Linux. To check if my programs also work well under Linux, I have another machine running Linux Mint.

[JohnWoe]

Installed Pop!_OS 22.04 on my Ryzen 4800.

I'm getting Mayhem perft 57MNPS w/ Pop 22.04.
Vs of 51MNPS in Mint 21.3.

PopOs updated lots of firmware on my ryzen. And using the latest kernel.

Pop!_OS looks pretty good. And feels pretty fast.

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me@pop-os:~/Downloads/nicenux-1.2$ nicenux.py 
  _      _____ _   _ _    ___   __ KERNEL: 6.8.0-76060800daily20240311-generic
 | |    |_   _| \ | | |  | \ \ / / OS:     Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
 | |      | | |  \| | |  | |\ V /  ARCH:   x86_64
 | |      | | | . ` | |  | | > <   CPU:    AMD Ryzen 7 4800U with Radeon Graphics 16@1.97GHz ( 2.90% )
 | |____ _| |_| |\  | |__| |/ . \  RAM:    14.85 GiB / 3.47 GiB ( 30.00% )
 |______|_____|_| \_|\____//_/ \_\ DISK:   224.81 GiB / 19.78 GiB ( 8.80% )
me@pop-os:~/Downloads/nicenux-1.2$ 

[smatovic]

Followup:

I switched to Debian over Ubuntu on my laptop for several reasons, still use Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Windows 10 on workstation for GPGPU and chess, tried a NetBSD Unix for laptop in a first step, still on my todo list, to switch primary laptop to BSD Unix.

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Srdja

[JohnWoe]

I have switched from Mint to Pop!_OS on all my laptops. Clearly superior choice.
All BIOS is updated automatically. Full encryption of computer. Key shortcuts.
On my Ryzen laptop my keyboard sometimes didn't startup. I didn't know the DOCK needed a BIOS upgrade. After Pop!_OS it works like charm.

[JohnWoe]

Never seen Mayhem getting in perft 100,000,000+ NPS. Absolutely crazy fast.

Pop!_OS 22.04
g++ 11.4.0 + / i7-12th
startpos depth 6

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perft 
1. a2a3 -> 4463267 (48 ms)
2. a2a4 -> 5363555 (54 ms)
3. b2b3 -> 5310358 (54 ms)
4. b2b4 -> 5293555 (52 ms)
5. c2c3 -> 5417640 (55 ms)
6. c2c4 -> 5866666 (59 ms)
7. d2d3 -> 8073082 (79 ms)
8. d2d4 -> 8879566 (87 ms)
9. e2e3 -> 9726018 (97 ms)
10. e2e4 -> 9771632 (98 ms)
11. f2f3 -> 4404141 (44 ms)
12. f2f4 -> 4890429 (49 ms)
13. g2g3 -> 5346260 (53 ms)
14. g2g4 -> 5239875 (52 ms)
15. h2h3 -> 4463070 (44 ms)
16. h2h4 -> 5385554 (54 ms)
17. b1a3 -> 4856835 (49 ms)
18. b1c3 -> 5708064 (57 ms)
19. g1f3 -> 5723523 (57 ms)
20. g1h3 -> 4877234 (48 ms)

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Nodes:    119060324
Time(ms): 1190
NPS:      100050692