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Vscode - I was very skeptical of this text editor but it won me over. There are some rough edges but overall very good.
MacOS - Overall a stable operating system.
R Programming Language - Has flaws but works generally good to explore and clean data. Special thanks to Ggplot2 to make it bearable to make plots.
Folder Peek - Allowing me to switch different projects/folder from Menu bar.
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Ah yes, Steve Jobs, the CEO and entrepreneur widely known for his lack of taste and aesthetic sense.
The minimalist style of most of his products is essentially a demonstration of lack of taste, probably with the purpose of playing it safe and not clashing with any potential customer's taste.
JetBrains IDEs. I need to work with three different languages and it is just a blessing that every IDE works exactly the same.
Not to mention, there are so many helpers built in and it's one of the few pieces of software that I don't have any major complaints about.
I've tried everything from Notepad++ (and plugins), Sublime (and plugins), MacVim (and plugins), Atom, VS Code, to other heavyweight IDEs...
I'm not a lucky person, avoid games of luck, but consider one of my few lucky moments being grandfathered into Jetbrains's sub model at a steep discount.
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I've done lots of dev on both linux and Windows. Neither is "better" IMHO. I started on Linux, but today my main work and personal systems are both Win10. I also have a persoanl Linux laptop I use sometimes (currently Pop_OS, because I felt like trying that). There's certain things easier on one or the other, usually caused by silly hardcoding of paths (or other OS-specific assumptions). I've run into this with pytho…
Are you able to compare scoop to Chocolatey? I've stuck with choco for years now, because it has so many packages that I haven't wanted to try out scoop or WinGet. Regarding PowerShell, I've found that it has become incredibly customizable these days. For example, I just enabled Emacs keybindings for it a couple days ago. So it feels almost like a bash terminal.
I think one of the main differences is that scoop will install for the local user. Which means you don't have to install stuff from an admin console (I think you can do that with choco but its not the default).
I also just checked to see what apps I've used in scoop vs choco and the only one that choco doesn't have (that scoop does) is wsl-ssh-agent.
scoop had all the apps I install through choco.
I'm sure theres more differences that go a little deeper, but as a simple end user, those are the only things I've noticed
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Software development is a much better experience on Linux compared to Windows (unless you stay within Visual Studio). If you do tasks that are well supported by your OS, your experience will be mostly good. Don't run servers on MacOS, don't develop on Windows and don't game on Linux. Or do it anyway and deal with the unpolished aspects of it.
I've done lots of dev on both linux and Windows. Neither is "better" IMHO. I started on Linux, but today my main work and personal systems are both Win10. I also have a persoanl Linux laptop I use sometimes (currently Pop_OS, because I felt like trying that). There's certain things easier on one or the other, usually caused by silly hardcoding of paths (or other OS-specific assumptions). I've run into this with pytho…
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I use fish as my main shell and haven't seen anyone else that has. Honestly its really good, the autocomplete feature is my favorite.
Actually you can use fish-like autocomplete feature in zsh with this plugin [1]. It works well for years in my machine. [1] https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete
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I guess I really should just set one up shouldn't I...
Haha yea, everytime i read about pihole i have these thoughts, but then i think to myself: “ah, one more thing i will have to admin…”. But anyway, i still have a spare rasbpi lying around somewhere…
The payoff (usable, perhaps even enjoyable, internet) is worth any admin it might create.
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I guess I really should just set one up shouldn't I...
Haha yea, everytime i read about pihole i have these thoughts, but then i think to myself: “ah, one more thing i will have to admin…”. But anyway, i still have a spare rasbpi lying around somewhere…
Visidata - Helpful to view excel/delimited text file to glance the data on TUI Vscode - I was very skeptical of this text editor but it won me over. There are some rough edges but overall very good. MacOS - Overall a stable operating system. R Programming Language - Has flaws but works generally good to explore and clean data. Special thanks to Ggplot2 to make it bearable to make plots. Folder Peek - Allowing me to s…
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>For me and windows it was when it updated a hibernating unplugged laptop overnight causing me to loose several hours of genealogy work. I had been using a new to me application that hadn't been doing any sort of background saving while I put in information. My had some niblings come over so I shut my unplugged laptop thinking id get back at it tomorrow. The next day when I opened the laptop I was greeted with the dr…
If it happens to me, an active computer user for 25 years, think of how often this has happened to others. How much work has frustratingly been lost because Windows knows better about when to update. Worse is technologically speaking this shouldn't even happen. Windows should be able to take a running application, save its state, do its update, reboot, then restore the application, without loosing a single byte of ap…
To go back to your example, you lost your work after Windows decided to silently update and reboot overnight. Now the million dollar question: Why didn't you save your work before you left?
A blackout or a drive crash or any number of failure cases could have happened instead and you would have still lost that unsaved data, too.
You're going to eventually lose any data you do not explicitly save. To put it another way, any data you don't save should be data you don't mind losing.
Windows 10/11's autoupdates are fucking nonsense, but data loss of the kind you're speaking of is by far a case of PEBKAC in my opinion. If you lose data overnight, that's because you didn't take basic steps to save and protect your data.