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I'm surprised at the small number of Windows users. At my workplace every computer has Windows installed and we didn't really have a choice about it, although I never asked. Also, as a fullstack web developer, I don't really see why I would prefer one over the other, since they all support VSCode and I can write code on any one of them. But then again, I exist inside of an echochamber of Windows users so I'm pretty c…
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I wouldn't consider Chrome the "operating system" that I am primarily developing on, even though it is really the VM under the hood. Windows is really the one facilitating running the Chrome application, or the Linux WSL application.
To be way too pedantic, if WSL2 (and therefore Hyper-V) is enabled then Windows actually boots into bare-metal Hyper-V first, which then launches the Windows kernel as a VM under itself, side-by-side with the WSL2 VMs if any are installed, so if the lowest level facilitator is what counts then you're really developing "on Hyper-V". I don't think that's a very useful distinction though.
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Omarchy has been a blast to use
I need to give Omarchy and Hyprland a real try at some point. I love the idea of a tiling window manager. I just haven't used one in 10 years and it's a big adjustment to classic window management.
Pleasantly happy and surprised by Linux after many years. I'm not happy with the insidious lock-in that Apple and Microsoft engage in. When I'm developing I need the machine to be by own, and only a few distros provide that. I do wish to try kde though because it receives a lot of praise but just can't figure out which distro is the sweet spot, allowing for games, but good package management too.
Linux. I retired the last Windows machine last year. Firefox on Linux, though, is not working very well. It keeps hanging during long typing inputs. No CPU or disk usage, just stuck. And it uses so much memory that the OOM killer sometimes kills it. I was never a Linux fanatic. It's just that I considered an operating system with ads unacceptable. I rather liked Windows 7.