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Windows isn't so bad. I had a legit prejudice against it for the longest time, and did literally everything in my power to avoid it even as my team began workin

by doktrin 11y ago

Windows isn't so bad. I had a legit prejudice against it for the longest time, and did literally everything in my power to avoid it even as my team began working almost exclusively on .NET projects. Now I've bootcamped my mac and swapped out my desktop Arch installation in favor of Windows 10. There are undoubtedly things that I miss - and I wouldn't be doing this if I wasn't primarily writing C# - but it's not quite the purgatory I'd imagined / remembered it being.

frik 11y ago
You meant wasn't so bad (Win7). The Win10 privacy issues are a showstopper on desktop.
- dikaiosune 11y ago
  IIRC, nearly all of that behavior can be disabled during installation (so before any user activity exists). And if you're talking about backdoors/hidden privacy behavior, there's been a risk of that since Windows 95. I think that the defaults of Win10 are bad, but it's not all as bad as the FUD that's floating around.
  - mixmastamyk 11y ago
    Nearly is not nearly good enough.
  - vetinari 11y ago
    That behavior that you set will be reset back to defaults with the next update. Thanks, but I have better things to do with my time than chasing settings in the system, whose vendor does not respect my choices.
  - eximius 11y ago
    The worst features can only be disabled on Enterprise editions of Windows. That is not the attitude I want in the most important piece of software on my computer.
    - doktrin 11y ago
      Does the registry tweak not disable Telemetry?
amyjess 11y ago
> There are undoubtedly things that I miss - and I wouldn't be doing this if I wasn't primarily writing C# - but it's not quite the purgatory I'd imagined / remembered it being. Yes, I keep telling myself that I'm going to dual-boot my Surface Pro 3 with Arch, but I never get around to it, in large part because Windows 10 just isn't that bad.
sremani 11y ago
VS also has nice Python tools. Powershell competence is going to improve your Windows experience. I figured out I have been looking the world in the wrong way. We all complain about the annoyances, but I think to use both Windows and Linux competently makes you a better over all developer.
- badloginagain 11y ago
  I've really embraced Powershell in a big way recently. A fairly expressive language, full backing of .NET, gives you total control of Windows. I always hated that Windows didn't have a [useful] terminal, cmd doesn't really cut it, but once I realized how deep you can actually go with Powershell, I've integrated it into our companies build process.
eklavya 11y ago
I didn't mean that, it's perfectly usable. But having a unix like system has it's advantages. I use a mac myself :)

by doktrin 11y ago

frik 11y ago

You meant wasn't so bad (Win7). The Win10 privacy issues are a showstopper on desktop.

dikaiosune 11y ago
IIRC, nearly all of that behavior can be disabled during installation (so before any user activity exists). And if you're talking about backdoors/hidden privacy behavior, there's been a risk of that since Windows 95. I think that the defaults of Win10 are bad, but it's not all as bad as the FUD that's floating around.
- mixmastamyk 11y ago
  Nearly is not nearly good enough.
- vetinari 11y ago
  That behavior that you set will be reset back to defaults with the next update. Thanks, but I have better things to do with my time than chasing settings in the system, whose vendor does not respect my choices.
- eximius 11y ago
  The worst features can only be disabled on Enterprise editions of Windows. That is not the attitude I want in the most important piece of software on my computer.
  - doktrin 11y ago
    Does the registry tweak not disable Telemetry?

amyjess 11y ago

> There are undoubtedly things that I miss - and I wouldn't be doing this if I wasn't primarily writing C# - but it's not quite the purgatory I'd imagined / remembered it being. Yes, I keep telling myself that I'm going to dual-boot my Surface Pro 3 with Arch, but I never get around to it, in large part because Windows 10 just isn't that bad.

sremani 11y ago

VS also has nice Python tools. Powershell competence is going to improve your Windows experience. I figured out I have been looking the world in the wrong way. We all complain about the annoyances, but I think to use both Windows and Linux competently makes you a better over all developer.

badloginagain 11y ago
I've really embraced Powershell in a big way recently. A fairly expressive language, full backing of .NET, gives you total control of Windows. I always hated that Windows didn't have a [useful] terminal, cmd doesn't really cut it, but once I realized how deep you can actually go with Powershell, I've integrated it into our companies build process.

eklavya 11y ago

I didn't mean that, it's perfectly usable. But having a unix like system has it's advantages. I use a mac myself :)