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I can't think I a single thing I'd need to boot into Windows for anymore.

by bsharitt 11y ago

jarcane 11y ago
Games.
- mcroft 11y ago
  Fortunately for me, the only game I really care about (Civ5) is available on Linux thanks to SteamOS. It certainly seems as though I am in the tiniest of minorities, though.
ausjke 11y ago
for me it's turbotax that does not have a linux version
- wyldfire 11y ago
  For the past 5-6 years I've used https://taxact.com/ https://taxact.com/ and haven't needed Windows.
typon 11y ago
Visual Studio is better than any IDE in existence. With ViEmu it becomes even better.
- tombert 11y ago
  Unless you don't have 30 spare gigs of storage space...
  - typon 11y ago
    If by 30 you mean 20 gigs then, yes. Also, 20 gigs on a very decent 256GB SSD costs around $6.40. I don't know how much your hourly wage is, but the time Visual Studio saves me compared to other development platforms makes up for that money pretty quickly.
    - tombert 11y ago
      I was just being cheeky, honestly, but that price doesn't scale linearly, at least not on a laptop. A 512gb SSD might have a higher cost-per-GB than a 256GB SSD. I don't run Windows and consequently haven't used VS in any kind of intimate detail, I'm sure it's great if you like dealing with IDEs. I feel more productive with Vim, tmux, GHCI, and GraspJS for doing of my web development.
    - rplnt 11y ago
      > If by 30 you mean 20 gigs then, yes. I'm pretty sure VS doesn't require nowhere near that amount and you are talking about Windows symbols.
      - tombert 11y ago
        That might be true; I had a slightly tainted image of VS when I had to use it three years ago, and after everything I needed was installed, I only had like a gig left (this was on a weak, underpowered netbook, admittedly). In retrospect it's not entirely VS's fault, though I just found it amusing how quickly it ate through my storage when Vim only takes like 90 megs.

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I can't think I a single thing I'd need to boot into Windows for anymore.

by bsharitt 11y ago

I can't think I a single thing I'd need to boot into Windows for anymore.

jarcane 11y ago
Games.
- mcroft 11y ago
  Fortunately for me, the only game I really care about (Civ5) is available on Linux thanks to SteamOS. It certainly seems as though I am in the tiniest of minorities, though.
ausjke 11y ago
for me it's turbotax that does not have a linux version
- wyldfire 11y ago
  For the past 5-6 years I've used https://taxact.com/ https://taxact.com/ and haven't needed Windows.
typon 11y ago
Visual Studio is better than any IDE in existence. With ViEmu it becomes even better.
- tombert 11y ago
  Unless you don't have 30 spare gigs of storage space...
  - typon 11y ago
    If by 30 you mean 20 gigs then, yes. Also, 20 gigs on a very decent 256GB SSD costs around $6.40. I don't know how much your hourly wage is, but the time Visual Studio saves me compared to other development platforms makes up for that money pretty quickly.
    - tombert 11y ago
      I was just being cheeky, honestly, but that price doesn't scale linearly, at least not on a laptop. A 512gb SSD might have a higher cost-per-GB than a 256GB SSD. I don't run Windows and consequently haven't used VS in any kind of intimate detail, I'm sure it's great if you like dealing with IDEs. I feel more productive with Vim, tmux, GHCI, and GraspJS for doing of my web development.
    - rplnt 11y ago
      > If by 30 you mean 20 gigs then, yes. I'm pretty sure VS doesn't require nowhere near that amount and you are talking about Windows symbols.
      - tombert 11y ago
        That might be true; I had a slightly tainted image of VS when I had to use it three years ago, and after everything I needed was installed, I only had like a gig left (this was on a weak, underpowered netbook, admittedly). In retrospect it's not entirely VS's fault, though I just found it amusing how quickly it ate through my storage when Vim only takes like 90 megs.