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Absolutely. Just about any Windows laptop with Windows 10 will be faster, cheaper and give you a better user experience in my opinion. I vastly prefer it over a

Absolutely. Just about any Windows laptop with Windows 10 will be faster, cheaper and give you a better user experience in my opinion. I vastly prefer it over a Mac or a Linux desktop because I find the Mac UI to be sorely lacking and I've never had a desktop Linux machine that didn't break itself over time. I've done Node.js based development on Windows since Node very new (~ v0.4 or so). I build Android apps with React-Native and in the past - Cordova, both which use the Android SDK/Android Studio to build. I've been using and developing Python 2/3 apps on Windows since forever. I have done Ruby on Rails, run a PostgreSQL server for development, played around with Golang. I honestly don't even need to use the Linux Subsystem for Windows to do anything that I personally need to do, but it's there and it's gotten very good reviews from users. The only thing I touch my Mac for is building iOS apps.

Rjevski 9y ago
> any [...] laptop with Windows 10 will [...] give you a better user experience in my opinion Sorry but no, how can you call Windows 10 a good user experience? It's pure garbage, full of annoyances, inconsistencies (they still can't have a consistent right click menu UI between the one on the taskbar, the one on window titlebars and the one on files/folders in Explorer), dark patterns to try to get as much data out of you, etc.
- hungerstrike 9y ago
  Pfffft. Sorry, but yes. My opinion remains unchanged despite your weak arguments. Windows 10 is the best desktop OS - the rest are trash whose users wish their OS had the same market share, hardware variety and solidity of Windows.
hungerstrike 9y ago
I love how the Windows haters never really sell you on their choice by telling you how good their favorite OS is, instead they only talk up their bullshit negative views on Windows. If you just say that your opinion is that Windows is the best desktop, you’ll be attacked here on HN. It’s fucking amazing how people just cannot stand another person having an opinion. Then, once you bring up how widely used Windows is compared to their OS and how many more drivers and hardware you have compared to their OS – they clam up and just do the most pathetic, cowardly thing they can...on this page. Well fanboys or should I say anti-fanboys, fuck you. My opinion remains unchanged despite using every single desktop operating system that I could get my hands on over the past 20 years.
- detaro 9y ago
  You've been "attacking" way more here than being attacked. Yes, the reply to you wasn't perfect, but brought arguments for their opinion... which you just dismissed as "weak arguments", and now you are the one lashing out against everyone disagreeing with you as a "fanboy". You are doing your case not any favor and please try to stay civil. Sent from my Windows 10 Thinkpad.
  - hungerstrike 9y ago
    Incorrect. My original post had no attack in it. At all. Then look at how I was replied to... "Sorry, but no." - Sorry, but no what? I can't have an opinion that differs than yours? Gimme a fuckin break.
hungerstrike 9y ago
This comment has no attack in it. Then look at how I was responded to. Such cheap bullshit.
hungerstrike 9y ago
The windows hate on HN is real. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6596038 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6596038

Rjevski 9y ago

> any [...] laptop with Windows 10 will [...] give you a better user experience in my opinion Sorry but no, how can you call Windows 10 a good user experience? It's pure garbage, full of annoyances, inconsistencies (they still can't have a consistent right click menu UI between the one on the taskbar, the one on window titlebars and the one on files/folders in Explorer), dark patterns to try to get as much data out of you, etc.

hungerstrike 9y ago
Pfffft. Sorry, but yes. My opinion remains unchanged despite your weak arguments. Windows 10 is the best desktop OS - the rest are trash whose users wish their OS had the same market share, hardware variety and solidity of Windows.

hungerstrike 9y ago

I love how the Windows haters never really sell you on their choice by telling you how good their favorite OS is, instead they only talk up their bullshit negative views on Windows. If you just say that your opinion is that Windows is the best desktop, you’ll be attacked here on HN. It’s fucking amazing how people just cannot stand another person having an opinion. Then, once you bring up how widely used Windows is compared to their OS and how many more drivers and hardware you have compared to their OS – they clam up and just do the most pathetic, cowardly thing they can...on this page. Well fanboys or should I say anti-fanboys, fuck you. My opinion remains unchanged despite using every single desktop operating system that I could get my hands on over the past 20 years.

detaro 9y ago
You've been "attacking" way more here than being attacked. Yes, the reply to you wasn't perfect, but brought arguments for their opinion... which you just dismissed as "weak arguments", and now you are the one lashing out against everyone disagreeing with you as a "fanboy". You are doing your case not any favor and please try to stay civil. Sent from my Windows 10 Thinkpad.
- hungerstrike 9y ago
  Incorrect. My original post had no attack in it. At all. Then look at how I was replied to... "Sorry, but no." - Sorry, but no what? I can't have an opinion that differs than yours? Gimme a fuckin break.

hungerstrike 9y ago

This comment has no attack in it. Then look at how I was responded to. Such cheap bullshit.

hungerstrike 9y ago

The windows hate on HN is real. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6596038 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6596038