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I just recently built a PC with Windows in it and started using it for development (Ruby, NodeJS, Python, Ionic). Some of my experiences: - Scoop is "ok" but n
by xtracto 8y ago
I just recently built a PC with Windows in it and started using it for development (Ruby, NodeJS, Python, Ionic). Some of my experiences:
- Scoop is "ok" but not on par with homebrew.
- Cmder is not on par with iTerm2 (CMD+D, CMD+Shift+D, CMD+T)
- Powershell terminal is utter crap
- WSL is just OK but still the integration is not that good
- VSCode works well
- Vagrant does not work that well. In general setting up the PATHs is clumsy
- Working with Ruby/rbenv or NodeJS/NPM is clumsy
- I miss Cmd+Space for calculator. using Windows Key + entering the formula doesn't work half the time
- Ninite is a godsend, but nowadays lacks several programs
- I love Paint ... why doesn't OSX have a similar paint program (I have to download Paint from sf.net)
- I loved the Windows spanned volume HDD. I had 7 plate-disks that I installed in my ATX tower and made one 1Gb disk with all of them, quite easily
- Impressed (with Windows) that several old hardware that I dug from a box (old webcam, old usb WiFi, old BlueTooth) worked as soon as I connected them.
There is a lot of stuff that I am still getting used to, but in general, although my experience doing development in Windows "works" it is still somewhat painful, while compared to OSX.
OTOH, I installed ubuntu on the same Machine, and god I removed it after 2 hours of tinkering here and there (to make work multiple monitors, wireless, bluetooth, webcam, stuff not working after resume-after-sleep). I was sad because I really like bash (that was my "safe place" when I first started to use Mac).
- akulbe 8y agoYour last point is exactly what I wanted to communicate to the first commenter. Lots of tinkering needed to get even close to the same functionality. That is exactly the opposite of "works out of the box".
- akulbe 8y agoAnd regarding the Cmder <--> iTerm2 comparison… Ctrl-Shift-E and Ctrl-Shift-O? (split windows) Ctrl-T to create new tabs? (create new tabs)