The Setup What do people use to get stuff done? Interviews Community About Ads Via The Deck Developer (git) Posted March 12, 2015. developer linux software windows I maintain Git , a distributed version control system. Linus Torvalds (of Linux fame) started the project in April 2005, which quickly grew and gained many contributors, which I was one of. Linus passed the project to me later in that year, and I've been running the project ever since. We'll have the 10 year anniversary this coming April. The primary "machine" I use daily for my work lives somewhere in Google datacenters. It's all virtualised and I'm not sure what the actual hardware looks like - all I know is that the instance is assigned 3 recent-model Intel CPU cores with 12GB RAM. On the end that has a keyboard and display, I use a Samsung XE303C12-A01US 11.6" Chromebook , or more rece...