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That’s cool if you can, but the majority of business desktops/laptops runs Windows. Hard to gain enterprise traction when it’s hard to run tools on your local machine

Vscode is free, which is a huge positive for it. For lots of places it can be hard to get budget for dev tools. A lot of it can depend on your industry or region

I think this is a major reason Ruby had trouble taking off compared to Python. Most desktops were Windows, especially for businesses.

The windows support is a killer, but I think they’ve been working to improve it. 95% of workstations at my office are Windows, so there’s that’s a huge missing market share. I stil…

Usually it’s meant to prevent kids from changing fonts to make a shorter paper fit the page length requirements.

I don’t think IMing a link is the main competition so much as “is there an companion app” For the hobbyist/small business though these regular desktop tools are still a godsend

I tried using it a few years ago to find new stuff to use and was turned off by the amount of meaningless, buzzword laden vaporware. I also didn’t like the weird long comment chain…

Also, a quick shoutout for Chocolatey which I use for making embedded packages for managing servers. https://chocolatey.org/ Scoop seems awesome too, just doesn’t fit my particular…

At our local theaters it now seems like the older generation can’t put away their cell phones either.

Have you tried chocolatey? I’ve really enjoyed using it

Isn't this essentially google news?