[split] Linux ... (CommunityAuth)

For the sake of making sure everyone knows that dev can be done 100% on Linux, here's what I use every day:

1) Sublime Text 2 (free, but I paid for a license)
2) SQLyog running in Wine (not a free program)
3) Filezilla (free)
4) Git (free)
5) Firefox with Firebug and FirePHP (free)
6) Standard LAMP stack (Apache, MariaDB, PHP) (free)
7) phpMyAdmin (free)
8) Sqliteman (free)
9) Grunt (requires Node) (free)
10) Sass (requires Ruby) (free)
12) Dropbox (free)
13) TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt (free)
14) Composer (free)

I do run Photoshop and Illustrator in Virtualbox 5.0, but since I'm not a "designer", I rarely fire this up anymore. Obviously Photoshop and Illustrator are not free, but Virtualbox is.

So, it can totally be done, and the distro you choose is probably not important. I like Ubuntu because I started in with it in 2006, and I just like it because it's familiar. Use what you like ...

Our mission is to build a simple and uncomplicated website that everyone feels comfortable using. PHP, MySQL, Apache & CodeIgniter are what we are focused on now. We may need a simple graphics program later. If we can achieve our mission with the basics, then we will stick with only those. I'm open to change so far as a text editor is concerned.

But I need something that will acknowledge the Internet connection console when the USB Stick is plugged in.

I downloaded Debian and installed it yesterday. I'm not impressed. So I'm about to abandon Debian.

Ubuntu was the best and easiest OS I've installed. Do you think this will work? If I download "Wine" and "Vertualbox" into my Windows 10 laptop then copy and paste those applications into the Ubuntu download. When I click on the Ubuntu download I come up with folders just the same as in Windows. With the amended Ubuntu download, burn it to a DVD, then insert into my new computer. I intend asking in https://askubuntu.com to see if it will work and where to paste them.