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Naah, not really. I've done that emacs exercise countless of times over a few decades and now I use vscode. I don't feel like I'm missing much.
Only available resources, modern IDEs are like hardware vendors wet dream came true.
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It's very interesting. I used Emacs for a long time, but slowly got weaned off it. - I used it for email, then I had to collaborate with people who wrote "please see my comments in orange below". (Of course, they were Outlook users.) Emacs did not show that orange color, so I didn't know... Maybe these days it's possible to read Outlook emails nicely in Emacs. - I used it for development, then the Java software I wor…
> I switched from Linux to Windows This is where many people leave Emacs. It's not that there's better tools on Windows, it's that Emacs on windows is terrible. Magit is orders of magnitude slower, for instance, and external tool integration is grossly impeded by the poor availability and quality of package management on Windows. Maintaining Emacs on windows takes considerable effort. Personally, I make do with WSL1…
I use Emacs on Linux and Windows equally. I've used Emacs on Windows at work for a decade. Other than magit, there's virtually no difference in experience between the two platforms.[1] Of course, perhaps you use a different set of features than I do.
> Maintaining Emacs on windows takes considerable effort.
I install it on my work laptop every 2-3 years, and for the last 5 or so years, it's literally been "Download, unzip and run." Occasionally I have to make registry changes to get org-protocol to work. Even 10 years ago, it was still fairly simple - just a bit of extra work to get some GTK related stuff installed as well. But right now it couldn't be easier.[2]
And I don't even use WSL. This is native Windows.
[1] Of course, if your Emacs is calling out to tools like grep/find, etc, you'll have issues unless you install those tools. Although these days, it's not hard to configure it to use ripgrep and fd, which has excellent Windows support.
[2] And perhaps installing LaTeX if you want to export org files to PDF.
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Speaking as someone who regularly attempts to switch back to Linux, I did that because the Windows desktop is a genuinely nicer experience. In no particular order... - The traditional start menu / taskbar is genuinely nicer than what Gnome attempts to force on me. OS X is also genuinely nicer than what Gnome attempts to force on me. I'd take either over Gnome. - The Linux desktop environment is laggy. This is difficu…
Vanilla Gnome is terrible. You must embrace extensions. At first I loathed the idea, but it's just become part of life. One for a dock, one for weather, one for tray icons, and if you prefer, one for top menu that gives you your more traditional start menu type thing. Or, there's always Xfce or KDE, of course. AMD drivers are now open source and finally working well. Nvidia is not, granted. Bluetooth audio works well…
Interestingly, for me, I only see some of the issues the GP mention when using xorg instead of wayland.
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It's very interesting. I used Emacs for a long time, but slowly got weaned off it. - I used it for email, then I had to collaborate with people who wrote "please see my comments in orange below". (Of course, they were Outlook users.) Emacs did not show that orange color, so I didn't know... Maybe these days it's possible to read Outlook emails nicely in Emacs. - I used it for development, then the Java software I wor…
I don't understand why people are moving Linux --> Windows. At the company I work for everything is native to Linux--I am floored by the number of interns we get who are using Windows (it's all of them). We have an intake script for getting them up on WSL2 with our stack on top but man these graduates are CompSci people and they did 4 plus years of CompSci using Windows? I can only imagine the pain. Or rather, I know…
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>The great thing about Emacs is that everything is a buffer[...] It frustrates me endlessly that this one simple, almost self-evident piece of Emacs wisdom failed to gain traction almost everywhere else. Even the venerable Vim drops the ball hard here, with the various "widgets" it uses in its interface which have slightly different semantics and behaviours. Every time I get a shitty modal with some text I can't copy…
I'm a long time Emacs user and just recently I have been learning and using neovim a lot. This is the most jarring difference between Emacs and other editors. The second biggest issue is Lua instead of Emacs Lisp. s-expressions work so well in the editor extension context. Steve Yegge wrote a really nice million word essay on this topic.
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I don't understand why people are moving Linux --> Windows. At the company I work for everything is native to Linux--I am floored by the number of interns we get who are using Windows (it's all of them). We have an intake script for getting them up on WSL2 with our stack on top but man these graduates are CompSci people and they did 4 plus years of CompSci using Windows? I can only imagine the pain. Or rather, I know…
Speaking as someone who regularly attempts to switch back to Linux, I did that because the Windows desktop is a genuinely nicer experience. In no particular order... - The traditional start menu / taskbar is genuinely nicer than what Gnome attempts to force on me. OS X is also genuinely nicer than what Gnome attempts to force on me. I'd take either over Gnome. - The Linux desktop environment is laggy. This is difficu…
ps: If you are using an Nvidia card, you can't, unfortunately, use Wayland.
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I don't understand why people are moving Linux --> Windows. At the company I work for everything is native to Linux--I am floored by the number of interns we get who are using Windows (it's all of them). We have an intake script for getting them up on WSL2 with our stack on top but man these graduates are CompSci people and they did 4 plus years of CompSci using Windows? I can only imagine the pain. Or rather, I know…
Most of the world uses Windows. If you're building software targeted at most of the world it makes sense to use Windows.
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Speaking as someone who regularly attempts to switch back to Linux, I did that because the Windows desktop is a genuinely nicer experience. In no particular order... - The traditional start menu / taskbar is genuinely nicer than what Gnome attempts to force on me. OS X is also genuinely nicer than what Gnome attempts to force on me. I'd take either over Gnome. - The Linux desktop environment is laggy. This is difficu…
While I have to use occasionally Windows for work, on my own desktops and laptops I have used only Linux for almost 20 years and I have not seen any of the problems encountered by you. Your problem with Wayland I could not have seen, because I have not attempted to use Wayland yet, but most of the others seem to be Gnome related. I have never used Gnome, as I have never liked what I have briefly seen in the Linux dis…
- nVidia's drivers are poor, and there are a lot of sharp edges. I'm using one of their GPUs. No, I can't switch to AMD; I need it for CUDA, and anyway GPUs aren't exactly cheap.
- AMD's drivers are of inconsistent quality, and I couldn't buy a 6800XT even if I'm willing to sell my first-born. Ok, that's also true for nVidia's newest GPUs, and Zen 3, and... different rant entirely.
- HDR basically doesn't work.
- Mixed-DPI screens basically don't work.
- HiDPI in general is glitchy.
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Shortcuts in VS Code are a setting. Just load which shortcut-setup you prefer. That's pretty normal with good dev-tools nowadays, because everyone has different preferences and habits.
> Shortcuts in VS Code are a setting. Just load which shortcut-setup you prefer. There are quite a few shortcuts that cannot be implemented due to missing capabilities in VS Code. For example -- this list from an author of a VS Code plugin that emulates Sublime[1]. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/3776
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I've been using the mingw windows version every day for years. I used to spend time now and then to make new things work, recently I switched to doom emacs, and almost every new functionality or package I try works out of the box. It's true that Magit is slow, but I still prefer it to the command line.
I'm going to give Doom a shot; I ignored Spacemacs because rebinding native keys and forcing evil-mode was a nonstarter for me. If I wanted to use Vim then I would, and did for a time.