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Windows for Linux Nerds

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Re: Windows for Linux Nerds

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Post by seiferteric »

arvinsim wrote: post #29
seiferteric wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty much, even as a developer, I feel the desktop paradigm is less and less important each year since I mostly only use a web browser and a terminal.

I assume that is because you can SSH into the machine of your choice? Most of the developers who don't live in a country with fast internet connection will still continue using a desktop for the foreseeable future.

Nope, just vim, and a browser mostly. I use sublimetext sometimes. That's the bulk of my desktop app usage.

Re: Windows for Linux Nerds

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Post by seiferteric »

thinkxl wrote: post #34
tootie wrote: post #22

A lot of snarky comments here, but I've been using Ubuntu shell on Win 10 for the past few weeks and it's really fantastic. Way faster than a VM and much more compatible than cygwin or msys.

More snarky than usual, i don't know why. "why not just" or "just use" kind of comments that you see more in reddit. Even someone recommended an Electron alternative, on HN! the #1 Electron hater community. Interesting.

I don't know, I think some people feel a bit threatened by this move. It could be viewed as a way to subvert the Linux and OSS community. I think people should know there are alternatives.

Re: Windows for Linux Nerds

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Post by thinkxl »

seiferteric wrote: post #43
thinkxl wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More snarky than usual, i don't know why. "why not just" or "just use" kind of comments that you see more in reddit. Even someone recommended an Electron alternative, on HN! the #1 Electron hater community. Interesting.

I don't know, I think some people feel a bit threatened by this move. It could be viewed as a way to subvert the Linux and OSS community. I think people should know there are alternatives.

> I don't know, I think some people feel a bit threatened by this move.

You are right, but as you said, is good to have alternatives.

> It could be viewed as a way to subvert the Linux and OSS community.

Good, is healthy to have competition.

Re: Windows for Linux Nerds

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Post by renaudg »

MilnerRoute wrote: post #28
domenukk wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks have improved a fair amount. The normal user still wouldn't know how to install any software they know on it, however. And I'm not talking about an open-source alternative from apt. Also, touch screens <3

For what it's worth, for software installation there's now "snaps," the new "universal Linux package" format that Canonical has been pushing.

Obligatory XKCD : https://xkcd.com/927/

Re: Windows for Linux Nerds

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Post by notgood »

tootie wrote: post #22

A lot of snarky comments here, but I've been using Ubuntu shell on Win 10 for the past few weeks and it's really fantastic. Way faster than a VM and much more compatible than cygwin or msys.

The linux subsystem for window is way faster than Cygwin (and any VM), I just tested grep on both platforms for a big text file (500MB) and cygwin-grep takes 2.630s while linux-subsytem-grep takes 0.395s

Re: Windows for Linux Nerds

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Post by nunez »

Congrats, Jess!

LXSS is amazing, but I had to stop using it because mounted volumes in Docker straight up don't work within it.

How don't they work? When you do a "docker run -v $PWD:/whatever ", "/whatever" will be blank. This occurred even when I tried to mount a directory on the FUSE mount to the Windows filesystem.

I'm guessing that given her experience in hacking container runtimes, she can probably lend a big hand towards fixing it. I'm currently using Vbox + Vagrant as a substitute, and it works well, but I'd prefer to use WSL.

Re: Windows for Linux Nerds

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Post by rodgerd »

bactrian wrote: post #2

This post was interesting in a morbid way but you can count the Linux nerds that want leave the open world of Linux for Microsoft very easily. They all work at Microsoft. Microsoft is losing on mobile, desktop, servers, and IoT. Their entire ecosystem is a technological deadend. If you're a Linux Nerd, you should probably keep using Linux if you care about having a good career going forward.

> you should probably keep using Linux if you care about having a good career going forward.

I will happily bet beer that not only is Jess's career already better than 99% of everyone here, it will stay that way for decades.

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