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I had a hackintosh build that was working really well for two years. At the time I would never had considered windows. But I did the switch to windows about 2 m

by kuon 10y ago

I had a hackintosh build that was working really well for two years. At the time I would never had considered windows. But I did the switch to windows about 2 months ago (using a linux vm as dev backend). And I surprisingly had zero issue. The hackintosh can be a good way to taste the hardware diversity (even if the article don't go very far on the hardware side). Once you do, you realise how locked up you are by Apple.

KSS42 10y ago
Does Windows support of BASH help at all? I am curious if anyone finds that useful.
- gervase 10y ago
  I use it daily. It's not quite as good as the Mac's terminal in many ways, but in a few ways it's even better (apt > homebrew, for example). If all you need to do is ssh into a VM or server, it's awesome. If you need to run a specific version of a legacy Fortran compiler, it might not work for you. I switch between all three systems over the course of a day, but in terms of (A) system consistency, and (B) well-designed (third-party) applications, Mac still wins.
  - kuon 10y ago
    Yes, the Mac has good consistency. But I am very pleased with Windows window management and multimonitor support. Being able to resize multiple adjacent windows with a single drag is really nice. The window+tab and alt+tab shortcuts are complimentary and better than the mac counterpart.
- kuon 10y ago
  It is getting more and more useful. Microsoft is really working on it. I am using a VM for now to be sure to get 100% linux environment working. But I hope to be able to do all my dev work in Windows in a few months. There is one thing missing still, it is something like iTerm 2. I am currently running terminator on linux via X11. Having a nice native Windows terminal emulator would be a big plus. There is ConEmu, but after a lot of tinkering I was unable to make proper color and mouse support working. MacOS is a very nice system for developers, and I am very sad to move away from it. I wrote about it here: https://medium.com/the-missing-bit/leaving-macos-part-1-motivations-b10accc10889 https://medium.com/the-missing-bit/leaving-macos-part-1-moti...
  - KSS42 10y ago
    There was an interesting interview on Windows Weekly podcast eps 514. Q & A with Special guest Rich Turner, Senior Project Manager, Bash on Windows and Windows Console. He talks about future bash/Linux support.

by kuon 10y ago

KSS42 10y ago

Does Windows support of BASH help at all? I am curious if anyone finds that useful.

gervase 10y ago
I use it daily. It's not quite as good as the Mac's terminal in many ways, but in a few ways it's even better (apt > homebrew, for example). If all you need to do is ssh into a VM or server, it's awesome. If you need to run a specific version of a legacy Fortran compiler, it might not work for you. I switch between all three systems over the course of a day, but in terms of (A) system consistency, and (B) well-designed (third-party) applications, Mac still wins.
- kuon 10y ago
  Yes, the Mac has good consistency. But I am very pleased with Windows window management and multimonitor support. Being able to resize multiple adjacent windows with a single drag is really nice. The window+tab and alt+tab shortcuts are complimentary and better than the mac counterpart.
kuon 10y ago
It is getting more and more useful. Microsoft is really working on it. I am using a VM for now to be sure to get 100% linux environment working. But I hope to be able to do all my dev work in Windows in a few months. There is one thing missing still, it is something like iTerm 2. I am currently running terminator on linux via X11. Having a nice native Windows terminal emulator would be a big plus. There is ConEmu, but after a lot of tinkering I was unable to make proper color and mouse support working. MacOS is a very nice system for developers, and I am very sad to move away from it. I wrote about it here: https://medium.com/the-missing-bit/leaving-macos-part-1-motivations-b10accc10889 https://medium.com/the-missing-bit/leaving-macos-part-1-moti...
- KSS42 10y ago
  There was an interesting interview on Windows Weekly podcast eps 514. Q & A with Special guest Rich Turner, Senior Project Manager, Bash on Windows and Windows Console. He talks about future bash/Linux support.