Why I'm sort of leaving Linux

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Post by ChowWi » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 6:32 PM UTC

Why I'm sort of leaving Linux
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Re: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux

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Post by anon4lol » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 6:58 PM UTC

Some random nobody/front-end developer starts using Windows... this just seems so out of place on HN.

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Post by pg_is_a_butt » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 6:59 PM UTC

Wow... a government employee praising their new $10B defense partner. Quid pro quo.

Re: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux

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Post by gcbw3 » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 7:00 PM UTC

Using windows/osx will always be more convenient at first. But then you hit a wall and can't patch/write something easily. ...even on this article intro it boast how he prefers a tiling window manager, then move to a platform that makes them a nuisance.

It's the basic trade off of short term vs long term reward.

Using closed source is like having a diet of candy. Great in small amounts, but bad if you are past 5 years old. And ridiculous if you are writing articles to defend it.

Re: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux

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Post by smacktoward » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 7:01 PM UTC

Enjoy the pervasive telemetry and Candy Crush ads!

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Post by mikece » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 7:06 PM UTC

I literally laughed out loud when I saw the author's name and now wonder why the headline wasn't: "Apple leaves Linux for Windows"

Yes, Windows has gotten far better in recent years; then again, there have been great tools available for it for a while, like ConEmu and it's derivative Cmdr, so when it was recently announced that Windows 10 does SSH I smirked because I've been doing that -- and Vim and other things -- from Cmdr for years.

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Post by temporallobe » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 7:12 PM UTC

I use Windows 10 Enterprise for a project I work on. I really like File Explorer, the taskbar, and the window switching system, but for system-level scripting and cli-based development, nothing beats a good ol’ bash terminal, whether on Linux or macOS. However, I detest Windows 10 Home for its extremely bloated menu layout, pre-installed spyware, and forced no-questions-asked-no-matter-how-much-you-protest updates. Doesn’t matter if you’re in the middle of some mission-critical task because it. will. update. For that reason alone, I completely abandoned Windows for home/personal use and now use either Mint or macOS (mostly macOS tbh). I’m no fanboi of any particular OS, and all I care about is an OS that’s stable, easy to use, and that does what I tell it (or tell it not) to do.

I never had OP’s experiences with Mint, so in that regard he’s generalizing. Like Christianity and its many denominations, it REALLY depends on the distro.

Re: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux

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Post by mark_l_watson » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 7:16 PM UTC

I don’t question his decision, people should do what is right for them.

That said, something caught my eye: he was spending a lot of time tweaking the Linux UI instead of working. This was me fifteen or twenty years ago: wasting tons of time tweaking things. Now, I use Pop Linux as is in my System76 laptop and before that for years I just accepted the default Ubuntu setup. Good enough.

Re: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 7:24 PM UTC

gcbw3 wrote: post #4

Using windows/osx will always be more convenient at first. But then you hit a wall and can't patch/write something easily. ...even on this article intro it boast how he prefers a tiling window manager, then move to a platform that makes them a nuisance. It's the basic trade off of short term vs long term reward. Using closed source is like having a diet of candy. Great in small amounts, but bad if you are past 5 year…

> Using windows/osx will always be more convenient at first.

Or, you know, forever. The number of things the Linux Desktop community is actively hostile to that could make computing life so much simpler is ridiculous. Portable applications? Relative icon paths in .desktop files? A standardized set of base libraries developers can rely on being present? Linux Desktop cares not for such things. If you don't want to do things their way, fuck you, that's their motto. Then they wonder why people keep choosing other OSs.

Re: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux

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Post by mlok » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 7:59 PM UTC

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. It sounds like an article written to show that Windows is finally understanding and has now embraced Linux, therefore users do not need to run away anymore : "Come back guys, we have all the Linux you love here inside Windows." This article does not seem to be an honnest point of view to me.