An i3 user who is happy with WSL? I think you are in denial, my friend.
Windows for Linux Nerds
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Re: Windows for Linux Nerds
#382Want to _really_ impress us, Microsoft? Give us a Windows Subsystem for Linux. I chose a maxxed out Dell XPS15 laptop with Windows 10 to replace my 3 year old rMBP with the (foolish) expectation that it could replace my Mac. Apple had lost sight of what mattered to developers, and I was angry. But now, 2 months later, here I continue developing and existing on my old rMBP. Bash in Windows is incredibly slow on some a…
I share your pain! I have a Dell XPS15 (i7 4K 9550) at work and Macs (rMBP and iMac) at home. Me too I was hoping to finally get a PC that was of similar quality, given that it is just as expensive as the rMBP. But boy was I wrong! Of course I did a clean install with just the drivers. But even like that, when it was new, I got 1 BSOD for every piece of software I installed. No joke. Even now, after almost 2 years an…
Lol! I suspect something's wrong with your machine, if your regularly get BSOD from a new machine: replace it.
Re: Windows for Linux Nerds
#383Earlier quoted context omitted.
I keep reading stuff like this about Apple losing sight of what matters to developers...but I don’t really know what the big deal is. Aside from a frustrating lack of RAM on the latest MBP, everything seems to be just as good as it was before to me. And even the RAM issue can be solved for me by just not using too much horribly inefficient (electron) software at the same time.
I want to be able to have a stupidly powerful computer. Like idk 128gb or ram and what not. Why is Timmy Cook telling me I can't.
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Re: Windows for Linux Nerds
#384Want to _really_ impress us, Microsoft? Give us a Windows Subsystem for Linux. I chose a maxxed out Dell XPS15 laptop with Windows 10 to replace my 3 year old rMBP with the (foolish) expectation that it could replace my Mac. Apple had lost sight of what mattered to developers, and I was angry. But now, 2 months later, here I continue developing and existing on my old rMBP. Bash in Windows is incredibly slow on some a…
They already have done that: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/19/sql_server_2017_fir...
It’s only limited to their SQL Server product though.
Re: Windows for Linux Nerds
#385Earlier quoted context omitted.
I keep reading stuff like this about Apple losing sight of what matters to developers...but I don’t really know what the big deal is. Aside from a frustrating lack of RAM on the latest MBP, everything seems to be just as good as it was before to me. And even the RAM issue can be solved for me by just not using too much horribly inefficient (electron) software at the same time.
I've heard removing the function/ESC keys for that emoji BS was pretty controversial.
Emoji just isn't even the point of the TouchBar though, and editors and IDEs are adopting support for it. It's basically just a programmable contextual shortcut bar. Plus, it's pretty easy to just remap your esc key to caps lock, and a lot of people have been doing that long before TouchBar was a thing.
Re: Windows for Linux Nerds
#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
I keep reading stuff like this about Apple losing sight of what matters to developers...but I don’t really know what the big deal is. Aside from a frustrating lack of RAM on the latest MBP, everything seems to be just as good as it was before to me. And even the RAM issue can be solved for me by just not using too much horribly inefficient (electron) software at the same time.
I want to be able to have a stupidly powerful computer. Like idk 128gb or ram and what not. Why is Timmy Cook telling me I can't.
The current reasoning is that LPDDR4 isn't available yet. You can get 64GB RAM in an iMac.
Re: Windows for Linux Nerds
#387Earlier quoted context omitted.
MS Office for Linux. That's all I need, that's all I would miss in my current work environment (in the browser is just not cutting it atm).
> MS Office for Linux Until they make this (and a native AD client), all the rhetoric around "Microsoft LOVES Linux" is empty marketing. (I understand it would be difficult to port. That's beside my point.)
I mean, they ported it to osx. It can't be _that_ hard.
Re: Windows for Linux Nerds
#388Want to _really_ impress us, Microsoft? Give us a Windows Subsystem for Linux. I chose a maxxed out Dell XPS15 laptop with Windows 10 to replace my 3 year old rMBP with the (foolish) expectation that it could replace my Mac. Apple had lost sight of what mattered to developers, and I was angry. But now, 2 months later, here I continue developing and existing on my old rMBP. Bash in Windows is incredibly slow on some a…
Try to use docker for Windows. Hyperv is extremely performant. In my day to day work I'm using Windows, but I'm constantly using a mixture of WSL and docker. I set up things like Cassandra, MySQL, debugging sessions, nginx using docker. For small Unix tools/launching my applications I use WSL. For other small tools I use powershell. It took some time getting use to it, but now I actually do feel like in an utopia. No…
just as a note to whom might read the parent comment: correct me if I'm wrong but docker for windows is not available on windows home (I think you need windows pro, because home does not come with hyperv)... that's all :)
Re: Windows for Linux Nerds
#389Earlier quoted context omitted.
"focus on power users, e.g. great configurability or well thought-out command line applications" Yeah, because it's an UNIX-like.
I'm not talking about command line languages or tools, but applications building an interface to it, like Terminal. It's much handier and more configurable than the built-in ones in Windows for cmd and PowerShell.
and that is because the whole pseudo terminal system was always there not encumbered by cmd wonkiness. That plus filesystem semantics alone make a unix like system miles ahead of microsoft.
Re: Windows for Linux Nerds
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That gist is full of insecure shit.
Hi! Your comment is very vague and damning considering it contains no specifics. The gist is served over https so that's secure. It's well documented so it's not really doing anything unintended so there's no problems there. It requires admin privileges, but so would similar changes in other operating systems. How specifically is the gist full of insecure shit?
I mean insecure configurations, like turning off automatic updates.
For instance, unconditionally marking current network as private.