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I have spent many (>100) hours with Windows 10 over the past three years. Everything I want to do is a special-case silo; after three simultaneous installs of G
by watersb 8y ago
I have spent many (>100) hours with Windows 10 over the past three years. Everything I want to do is a special-case silo; after three simultaneous installs of Git, VS Code still complains that it needs yet another alternative stack.
Cywin, Chocolatey, GitHub Desktop App, Windows Subsystem for Linux...
I feel like Dr. Evil's son Scott. Everything is so damn complex!
So many features.
Microsoft Dev Team blog posts announcing stuff are pages and pages of great documentation. Linux dev posts are shorter, people write simple examples, expect you to engage with code samples of your own. Apple devs post nothing at all.
MacOS provides a most effective desktop environment that has careful graphic design, hosts some damn fine applications, and a Bash command-line interface to the actual system.
Solaris would have grown into this, they were very close.
- eb0la 8y agoI feel Windows is a second-class citizen for developers that work with open source software... For instance if you're on Windows and your home directory has non-ascii characters a lot of software will fail. Not just open source, but all kind of modules, libraries, etc that are supposed to be cross-platform but in reality only support utf8 inside filenames and directories. Thus isn't a problem with Windows, but lack of testing.