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When it comes to finding a decent terminal emulator for Windows: mintty is the terminal you get when you use Git Bash, right? Because in my experience it's better than ConEmu. ConEmu makes a staggering number of off-by-one errors in putting characters on the screen when I ssh into a Linux machine and use tmux. Vertical separators end up jagged, things that are supposed to fit the width of the screen end up wrapping,…
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>you can't run Windows natively that way, it has to be a guest operating system. Then you need multiple videocards to pass through, and the guest operating systems require custom drivers at that. I, for one, think that sounds excellent. For a workstation, I would much rather host everything on a simple Linux distro with focus on security and privacy, and keep Windows in VMs where I can manage it a little better. And…
I'd prefer Windows as a guest OS too, but not at the expense of losing native performance. Granted, Windows makes for a fairly terrible host operating system when you have to reboot it frequently on account of updates.
At first I was excited by bash for Windows but I am still not switching. You know why? Malware. Ransomware. I have many layers of defense from various harm (OpenWRT router, uBlock being the two most important ones) but the biggest defense I have is that Windows programs simply do not run on Linux and the Linux market is not big enough to bother with. And I know many of you will say, oh that's not a problem, it never…
Save your FUD, I've been using computers for 16 years and I've never had this problem. Malware/Ransomware hit only if you go around the dark corners in search of porn/free stuff without knowing what you're downloading. Even then the built in Windows defender catches it. I love Arch too but people like you are so die hard in their toxicity that any collaboration asking about Windows related stuff is impossible.
As a Windows user myself even I know that's simply not true. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
[1] http://www.neowin.net/news/crypto-ransomware-hits-major-webs...
[2] http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/04/adobe-flash-update...
[3] http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/04/maisto-toymaker-we...
[4] https://labs.bromium.com/2014/02/21/the-wild-wild-web-youtub...
[5] http://www.neowin.net/news/nhs-website-sent-users-to-malware...
[6] http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/malware-attacks-thou...
[7] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/exclusive-ongoing-ma...
[8] http://www.pcworld.com/article/227352/attackers_use_google_i...
[9] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/10/05/bing-image-black...
[10] https://medium.com/@networksecurity/oleoutlook-bypass-almost...
I'm one of those weird people that uses free software even if it isn't better. The quality of the software is beside the point.
If you're not using the best functional tool for the job, the only person you are hurting is you.
In any case, while free software might hurt me short term, proprietary software is guaranteed to hurt me long term.
I work on Windows. I can say that Thunderbird is far better that Outlook.
There’s something about “translating system calls” that just makes me wary. It’s the kind of thing that could be proven to work for some common cases while failing in mysterious ways for others (not to mention being hard to debug). Generally, there is a gap between what’s documented, what was thought to be true, and what is. At some point they will produce behavior that just doesn’t match what compiled code expects.…
Have you heard of testing? And have you heard of software verification? Microsoft research is far and away the leader with single person publishing multiple papers in the best conferences- POPL etc. orrying about imaginary Don't worry about imaginary future problesm. Its like me saying- my car is very complex and may crash, I will not drive it. This is how you hold technology back.
What you call 'imaginary future problem' is everyday for some people. Think three months of work for a team of eight senior system devs per sys call behaving unexpectedly.
And tbh, windows was historically far worse than Linux in that area with all the 'bug compatibility' and closeness per version.
Yes they can provide a layer for some calls now, it's all shiny and hipster, but it will be cold day in hell before a major bank or big enterprise runs anything serious on it.
Maybe in ten years if Microsoft doesnt chop it out by then.
A lot of comments about Thunderbird here, despite the article saying "Save your apologist comments and what about Open Office/Geary/Thunderbird comments.". That means don't comment about it. The interesting part of the article is not the part about why this guy uses Windows!
You missed the rest of the paragraph though: "If you’ve used them, you know that they’re not as nice as the applications available in macOS and Windows." I used Thunderbird for about 10 years on my Mac laptop and every time I tried to switch to Apple Mail (or anything else) I quickly switched back. But the truth is, I have used Linux on my primary desktop PC for about 15 years now and can honestly say that it is a ve…
Also, if Windows source code was freely available there would be support for Windows applications on Linux.