Originally Posted by
Dog5000 If your Xubuntu laptop has enough horsepower and supports the IDE and related dev/test tools that you need to use for iOS development, then you could start out with what you have. If the laptop is going to struggle and take a relatively long time for compiles and debugging, then that may be a breakpoint for you to consider a more modern and robust system.
It won't support it. iOS development requires a Mac to develop on. Yes there are some exceptions, but OP seems to want to do native iOS development and not a hybrid approach like PhoneGap so he/she needs a Mac.