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New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
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Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
#182Could be a MBP replacement for developers. The only thing is those of us running on OS X, how is Windows 10? I love my command line and linux like commands and tools. - Homebrew - Bash scripts - Docker (Windows 10 currently not supported) - Vagrant I just feel the tooling for MS isn't in the direction I am. I still have a Windows 7 desktop and it's just not the same.
Indeed windows for development is not always as streamlined as a unix-based system like OS X. I use a surface pro 3 with windows 8.1 and wrote a python script that opens a cygwin terminal at the top of my screen to provide Guake-like functionality for windows. Most development work I do however is done within a Ubuntu virtual machine, but then again I've usually been doing web development over the past couple years.
Someday someone should write a book published by one of the tech book publishers about how to set up non Visual Studio dev environments on Windows (RoR, Django, PHP/MySQL, etc). It seems like things have gotten to the point where developing on Windows == MSFT dev tools, and everything else is Mac/*nix.
Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
#183how does their website not work on Chrome? http://imgur.com/a/egqSU
It works ... after you let it load and everything reflows accordingly.
Terrible first experience.
Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
#184how does their website not work on Chrome? http://imgur.com/a/egqSU
Ha. Safari desktop too. I guess it worked once I resized the window, but not until then.
Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
#185Could be a MBP replacement for developers. The only thing is those of us running on OS X, how is Windows 10? I love my command line and linux like commands and tools. - Homebrew - Bash scripts - Docker (Windows 10 currently not supported) - Vagrant I just feel the tooling for MS isn't in the direction I am. I still have a Windows 7 desktop and it's just not the same.
>> Could be a MBP replacement for developers. The only thing is those of us running on OS X, how is Windows 10?
>> I love my command line and linux like commands and tools. - Homebrew - Bash scripts - Docker (Windows 10 currently not supported) - Vagrant
I switched from OSX to Windows last year. I thought I'd miss stuff, but you don't.
There are package managers like chocolatey to replace homebrew.
I use Cmder as my terminal and it works a lot like Mac's terminal. It was probably the key app that made my transition easy.
I use Vagrant on Windows and it works fine.
Can't say much about bash scripts or Docker though, since I rarely run those locally.
Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
#186Could be a MBP replacement for developers. The only thing is those of us running on OS X, how is Windows 10? I love my command line and linux like commands and tools. - Homebrew - Bash scripts - Docker (Windows 10 currently not supported) - Vagrant I just feel the tooling for MS isn't in the direction I am. I still have a Windows 7 desktop and it's just not the same.
I would just install Linux on it.
Good luck getting the touch screen to work flawlessly with your Linux install
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's all there, just different. PowerShell = bash, Chocolatey = homebrew, Windows Server Containers = docker, Hyper-V+powershell = vagrant, DSC = ansible etc etc. I don't use Windows 10 for reference though. Still on 8.1 until they fix a few things and release a version-matched server platform.
Vagrant works on Windows. You can use Hyper-V or VirtualBox for the virtual machine environment.
I know. However it's buggy on windows and painful for deploying windows VMs on (with packer).
Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
#188Could be a MBP replacement for developers. The only thing is those of us running on OS X, how is Windows 10? I love my command line and linux like commands and tools. - Homebrew - Bash scripts - Docker (Windows 10 currently not supported) - Vagrant I just feel the tooling for MS isn't in the direction I am. I still have a Windows 7 desktop and it's just not the same.
I use both a MBP and a Win10 laptop. I really do like Win10, and honestly probably better than OS X.
I have a powershell console open on Win10 just as often as I have the terminal open on OS X. It's just a different dialect of command line than what some folks are used to
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#189I am very interested in learning how they provide 12 hours of usage for the Surface Book. What do they disable to extend the life? They battery capacity?
Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
#190Could be a MBP replacement for developers. The only thing is those of us running on OS X, how is Windows 10? I love my command line and linux like commands and tools. - Homebrew - Bash scripts - Docker (Windows 10 currently not supported) - Vagrant I just feel the tooling for MS isn't in the direction I am. I still have a Windows 7 desktop and it's just not the same.
As a developer my first question would be: Can I dual boot linux on it? If so it would be an extremely attractive developer machine and switch to Windows when you need it. The hardware is the show stealer here.