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Brody Brooks
Personal blog · brodybrooks.com/postsprogrammingsystems
Brody Brooks's personal blog at brodybrooks.com covers programming and systems. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Switching to Linux as a Game Developer”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the 2024 linuxgamedev post, which covers a game developer's experience using Linux as a desktop for game development. Commenters cite it as evidence against Windows 11 as a dev environment.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Digital Creative
Most-linked posts?
- Switching to Linux as a Game Developer3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-05-15
What Hacker News says?
tl;dr yes: https://brodybrooks.com/posts/2024-linuxgamedev/
Comment linking /posts/2024-linuxgamedev/
on “Introducing Copilot+ PCs”Submitted Switching to Linux as a Game Developer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionmeanwhile, Windows 11 is so awful that a game developer can find Linux to be a better desktop for game dev: https://brodybrooks.com/posts/2024-linuxgamedev/
Comment linking /posts/2024-linuxgamedev/
on “Introducing Copilot+ PCs”Submitted Switching to Linux as a Game Developer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Digital Homesteading: A Primer on Running Your Own Web Services [2025] as a story · 1 points
HN discussion