• Arch Linux (btw.)
• hyprland
• helix
• kitty
• LibreWolf (for research)

Windows + Visual Studio :(

Linux, emacs.

Linux, Plasma, VSCodium with the clang. cmake, and Qt extensions

• NixOS
• Hyprland (pending migration to Niri)
• Emacs (eglot)

I occasionally use Jetbrains products as well (e.g. maintaining Kotlin projects).

Kate, LSP, Linux.

Flexible, but Linux/macos predominantly. Jetbrains (CLion/RustRover). No specific plugins, JB IDEs are pretty good out of the box.

NixOS, fish, tmux, Helix, jj

Arch + i3wm/sway + Tmux + Neovim

A messy bedroom.

I run Manjaro, and use neovim for my development. I've got a slew of plugins for everything from language servers to database to things like integration with tmux and specialty motions.

I've tried many development environments, but so far I keep coming back to nvim.

I've been a fan for about 5 years at this point, and I use it for PHP+js+html at my day job and Rust for personal projects, but also any other language that comes up. Delightful to have one editor that can do basically everything and do it with consistent shortcuts, that I can even run on my phone with a folding keyboard.

Arch with Niri, LazyVim in Ghostty.

• NixOS + Home Manager
• Niri
• Kitty
• Neovim, via Neovide

For work it's Fedora + Home Manager because the remote admin software doesn't support NixOS. Thankfully I've been able to define my dev environment almost fully in a Home Manager config that I can use at work and at home.

I use lots of Neovim plugins. Beyond the basic LSP and completion plugins, some of my indispensables are:

• Leap for in-buffer navigation & remote text copying
• Oil for file management
• Fugitive + Git Signs + gv.vim + diffview.nvim for git integration
• nvim-surround to add/change/remove delimiters
• vim-auto-save
• kitty-scrollback

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.

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.

MacOS and Panic Nova

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.

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

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

Doom Emacs on Arch with Plasma.

Linux + IntelliJ

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

Linux

Distrobox container

Code OSS

• clangd (always have to change compile commands path because $workspacefolder variable varies per machine even on the same project, it will just choose a subfolder sometimes)

• nrfconnect suite (it has some extra checks for .dts files and a nice GUI)

• embedded flash plugins/programs like jlink, Stmcubeprogrammer, etc..

Serial Studio

Logic 2 / Sigrok pulseview

Debian at home, Rocky Linux at work

VSCodium or Godot depending on what I'm working on.

Whatever language support via LSP is available for VSCodium, Prettier, I'll have to check the rest. Nothing that drastically changes the experience. Basically whatever does auto formatting, code completion(without using "AI"), and error highlighting.

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

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.

neovim, neovim, neovim

Work: RustRover on MacOS Personal: RustRover on Bazzite

Mainly language support plugins: Python, .env, mermaid

Linux/Sublime Text/Konsole

OS: Debian (Trixie)

DE: KDE Plasma

I use vim for light edits. Currently using VSCodium, but am slowly trying out Kate. I use codeberg as Version Control, and Konsole as the terminal.

I also have notepadqq (a native alternative to notepad++), but prefer vim and am also trying to switch to Kate.

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

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, 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

Gentoo, Neovim.

I should switch to Helix, if I ever find the time.

• OS:
  • Arch Linux or OpenBSD, depending in how I feel
• Editor:
  • Micro on Linux
  • mg(1) on OpenBSD
• Plug-ins:
  • Micro has support for a few linters, which is all I really need
  • mg(1), meanwhile, doesn't even have syntax highlighting
• Terminal:
  • Kitty on Linux
  • XTerm on OpenBSD
• Shell:
  • Zsh on Linux
  • ksh on OpenBSD
• Version Control:
  • Git is the only realistic option (though Mercurial and Fossil are nice)
• Code Hosting:
  • Usually Codeberg
  • I also have sourcehut
  • My Formula Student team uses GitLab
  • My university and another society use GitHub 🤮

I usually licence my work under GPL if it's a large project, or Beerware if it's something smaller (or if it's for internal use in one of my societies).

Any coursework I do, however, gets licenced under BSD-3-clause. For this, GPL would be too restrictive and Beerware would be too informal, and BSD-3-clause is a nice middle-ground (as far as I'm concerned).

Windows ME. Notepad.

Linux, KDevelop, C++

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

Arch Linux, hyprland/quickshell

Kitty/konsole

VSCodium (+ a very few plugins) / Kate

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

OS: Ubuntu IDE: IntelliJ for Java/Kotlin, VSCode for Scala, sometimes Helix for particular files

Lmde7, nvchad set up with some linters and autocompletion.

Bazzite and Kinote though I use distrobox and k8s alot for messing with other distros/apps. Vscodium and neovim. Vscodium is loaded up with nearly anything IaC or kubernetes related and Continue for some AI stuff (pointed to local and mistrial). Also heavy opinionated stuff for Python like black, etc (I want my ide to yell at me to make better code). Some GitHub and git lab add-ons too. Nvim is just as is.

Debian, awesome wm.

For work I use IntelliJ

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

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.

OS: Arch DM: Niri Terminal: Kitty Editor: Helix

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

At work my OS on my workstation is Windows 11. In an average month I use C#, C++, Python, and Javascript. I usually have at least one instance of VS code and VS pro open. I also use Rider because we use plug-ins for one project. Everything is pretty default except the layout I use.

At home my dev PC is rynning on Kubuntu and I use VS code as an IDE. I use whatever language fits the team/project. When I can choose I mainly use C# or Rust. After using C# at school and your first job outside of school, you get really fast at expressing yourself in C#.

For me my keyboard is an import because I want a consistent feel wherever I am. So for typing I use the same clicky switches on my coding keyboards with keycaps that have the same shape and profile.

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!

Windows, Visual Studio, Telerik (why yes I'm forced to use this for work...)

I got started in dev work recently and have gotten used to this setup, I kinda want to learn vscode and host it on my server or something but I'm not really sure what kind of projects I can work on for myself, also not sure learning another IDE while learning in general is a great idea.

At work:

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

Macos M1 Pro, Tmux + zsh, Neovim Full stack developer, not gaming

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

OS: W11

IDE: Rider, Webstorm, VSCode and for legacy apps Visual Studio

Shell: Powershell w/ OhMyPosh, I find Powershell a hassle to use but I set it up once after seeing a colleague use it and kept it

I would like to point out that there are quite some Linux devs in the replies. I feel like I don’t belong here.

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

KDE Neon, with Icons-Only task manager and global menu in a top bar. I have shortcuts for moving between activities and custom one for "show in all/show only in current activity" with a KWin script. Window rules for everything to open in the correct activity. Neon is not super stable but it's nice and fun to get the latest KDE stuff.

IDE is Neovim and Rider (Jetbrains)

Neovim config is kickstart.nvim + autosave, noice-ui, commentary, luasnip and harpoon.

Rider has Nyan progress bar, key promoter X, Ideavim and gittoolbox. I want to move to Neovim but debugger experience is very good in Rider. ctrl+p and alt+tab, Navigation is a bit too slow for me.

Also bash, it's big part of my development environment since I really like using the terminal and making alias and functions for everything. I have "clipboard filepath - > js code generator - > clipboard" stuff for example and it's nice to just type gen -ts to convert C# class to TS interface ready to paste. Play/pause media with p, navigate to project and start it name [all, start, cs]. ref to fuzzy find a git branch and switch to it. Log how many hours I worked with logtime etc. I hate bash as a language but as a tool to interact with the computer I love deeply because you can automate a stupid amount of stuff.

Also, no mouse, just trackpad for when I'm forced to use it which is not that often even though I'm in webdev (vimium plugin for browsers MVP there).

Windows:

KATE + RemedyBG

Linux:

KATE + Seer

I had a few high-powered previously Windows machines lying around, so now Ubuntu LTS + Codium are my daily drivers

Windows 11

Notepad (new)

Co-pilot

ChatGPT Agent to prompt copilot for me.

(This is a joke)

Windows with PythonWin (like IDLE) for most stuff, VSCode for vibe coding, even though I haven't explored it much. I still need to figure out how to get local coding models running so I can compare them to whatever online AI comes with VS.
Plus a Mac with TextMate.

I work for a company whose product is built on dotnet. I worked in Windows for a long time but with the shitshow that is 11, I switched to Mac at my last hardware refresh. Linux isn’t an option here yet, but we host in Linux, so I hope it will be an option eventually.

Rider, the only extension I wouldn’t want to live without is IdeaVim.