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I really don't understand most of his arguments against switching to Linux. > I’ll keep this short: I still depend on Lightroom, writing tools (Notion, Evernot
by folkrav 8y ago
I really don't understand most of his arguments against switching to Linux.
> I’ll keep this short: I still depend on Lightroom, writing tools (Notion, Evernote prior), a solid default desktop environment, first-party hardware support (be it a MacBook or Surface) & battery life, and most of all, my time. I respect those who’ve invested the time into maintaining & automating a full Linux environment they can use daily, but I just don’t have the time for that investment nor am I ready to make the trade-offs required for it. To each their own.
- Software support, no problem, I can understand. I still have a Windows partition for audio production.
- The "solid default desktop environment" is pretty much crap - both Gnome and KDE Plasma are far more solid DEs than Windows'.
- First-party support I can't figure out what he means by that...
- As for battery life, I have 10+ hours on my ZenBook running Arch. The battery life is actually better on Linux than on Windows on this laptop.
- Windows has been a much higher time-sink than Linux or macOS for me. Sure, an Arch or Gentoo desktop would be higher maintenance than your average distro, but come on, Fedora and Ubuntu are _super_ easy to install these days, and the overwhelming majority of the time just work out of the box. It's 0 maintenance. My maintenance/automation scripts were like 80% ported straight from my old macOS scripts.
I'm forced to use Windows on my work computer and it's IMHO terrible. Its virtual desktop feature are useless (really, switching desktops changes _all_ screens at once?), the shell is crap, WSL basically feels the same as running a VM and SSHing in, the DE is horrible.
- z3phyr 8y agoThe (One of the) real reason(s) anybody even considers Windows is Visual Studio proper. Nothing comes close to it in proper IDE experience. It has (arguably) the best debugging facilities in common existence.
- jhasse 8y agoVisual Studio Code with the right extensions comes pretty close :)
- wbkang 8y ago> - The "solid default desktop environment" is pretty much crap - both Gnome and KDE Plasma are far more solid DEs than Windows'. You are not telling us anything better than the author, one way or another.
- folkrav 8y agoNever pretended I did either. I also don't really have to, the argument stays bad anyway.