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Thanks for keeping it so bad that you can't even push to a repo without corrupting the filesystem or the repo itself.
It might have supposed to be EEE, but it turned out to be the last push many people needed to switch to a full Linux OS.
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Why do you even need a Windows workstation as a Ruby or Node developer? That doesn't make any sense.
You don't need it but it's 1/3 the price of an Apple workstation and just runs with all hardware compared to Linux. Plus, some people just like Windows and/or don't like macOS.
No, it doesn't. Linux runs on more architectures than Windows. Linux supports a wider range of machine specs than Windows does. There has never been an operating system in human history having hardware support as vast Linux. The television in your living room might be running Linux. Your refrigerator might be running Linux. Your car might be running Linux. Linux is everywhere.
When it comes to hardware support for laptops, the choice of distro is important. Enterprise linux distros ship with ancient kernels and you do not want to install that on a laptop.
Most hardware compatibility issues come from WiFi cards, and there are solutions for that other than looking for a driver and installing it manually. You can tether WiFi from your phone, or you can get a USB WiFi adapter for like $5 on Amazon.
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You don't need it but it's 1/3 the price of an Apple workstation and just runs with all hardware compared to Linux. Plus, some people just like Windows and/or don't like macOS.
> runs with all hardware compared to Linux. No, it doesn't. Linux runs on more architectures than Windows. Linux supports a wider range of machine specs than Windows does. There has never been an operating system in human history having hardware support as vast Linux. The television in your living room might be running Linux. Your refrigerator might be running Linux. Your car might be running Linux. Linux is everywhe…
> When it comes to hardware support for laptops, the choice of distro is important.
I don't care. I just want to develop my programs. Each minute I need to invest into searching for compatible hardware or drivers is costing me money or my free time.
I'm using Linux at home and on servers but for workstations I don't care for it, at all.
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The desktop experience Windows offers is often a lot better than the desktop experience of Linux. Then there's also the issue of Linux hardware support which often is not optimal. Also a lot of people need to use Windows for work and don't have a choice. And then there's the possibility people actually like using Windows. Having a full Linux terminal in your Windows desktop environment is the best of both worlds for…
>The desktop experience Windows offers is often a lot better than the desktop experience of Linux. Shockingly, this is untrue if using KDE. Almost everything in it is better than a multi-billion-dollar company's monopolistic OS shell somehow, from the taskbar customization to the features (disable compositing, deep customization of effects and behavior, have windows remember size/position, etc.) to the file manager,…
Quite ironic.
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That’s a shame. I have a high-powered desktop and sometimes it’s nice to work from the patio by opening a few VMs on my laptop. I get the oomph of the big box with the mobility of the laptop. To be fair, this feature always felt..rickety. But it was very nice.
You can still use remote desktop for accessing remote VMs. You would be missing the remote power operations. FWIW, I am working on a product called Vimarun [0] that is aimed to replace most of that missing functionality over time. No remote power operations yet, but that will come. [0] https://vimarun.com
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To give an idea how bad it is, building Firefox on a Threadripper 3970X on Windows takes slightly over 12 minutes if you don't disable Defender and somewhere around 7 minutes if you do.
What a horrible amount of overhead. Why does Defender need to scan the contents of a bunch of non-executable files? I suspect the answer runs deep and is at least somewhat horrifying.
While I agree the overhead is atrocious, buffer overflows and similar bugs can turn an "innocent" non-executable file into an executable, like this[1] JPEG file parser issue affecting a large number of applications using GDI+.
That said, I'd be surprised if it couldn't be smarter about this.
[1]: https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/archives/alerts/TA04-260A
WSL2 was promised as a good working extension for a Linux dev environment on windows by my peers. Sadly, a whole host of issues specific to my dev environment meant that it was useless as I’d spend more time fixing it than getting any valuable use out of it. More importantly, this became the very reason I switched to arch full time, and haven’t looked back since. I still hope that it becomes what it was promised to b…
Opposite anecdata - I got a gaming PC and i migrated all my development to it and WSL(2) has been a godsend. VS Code has a "WSL Remote" mode that works really well (where a vscode server runs in Linux and the windows GUI access it "remotely"). I even use the Windows Github app for the occasional GUI-assisted commit, and apart from being slow its fine. I've had only two problems with this set up: - Occasionally VS Cod…
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Virus do abuse non executables like js, vbs, or whatever script file. Antivirus can't really know if it is the case without open it.
What is it about Windows that makes this a problem where macOS and Linux seem to be fine? The same mechanisms exist in all three major operating systems, which is to say that technically any executable I choose to run on my computer can load a file and interpret it. Is it really just that Windows users download and run random junk? It's been so long that I've seen a virus of any kind anywhere at all that I genuinely…
> Feel like booting Linux on a separate disk because of these issues. It always seemed strange to me that people would rather use WSL than the real thing when Windows doesn't bring much advantage. What am I missing ?