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A strange thought process. If you wanted Unix on not-Apple, a Linux desktop remains the more reasonable option(sub the perpetual caveat of having to vet the har
by mntmoss 7y ago
A strange thought process. If you wanted Unix on not-Apple, a Linux desktop remains the more reasonable option(sub the perpetual caveat of having to vet the hardware for compatability).
And my first inclination would be to see how things go with Msys2 before banking on WSL. You will eventually end up navigating build processes in some depth - but I don't see that as a Windows problem so much as a Unix/libc monoculture problem that gets swept under the rug by never leaving that environment. You won't have quite the same experience with a fully MS stack or with not-specifically-Unixy tools.
- nwallin 7y agoSame. This is utterly bizarre. He somehow thought being a second class citizen in a second class OS would be better than just biting the bullet and buying one of the Dell developer edition XPS 13s that ship with Linux installed. I don't get it. Font rendering in Linux is hilariously one of its strong points these days. Whether you prefer the OSX way of font rendering or the windows way, it's just a config setting. You change it to the way you like it and then it's the way you like it. There's no giant faceless organization trying to convince you that the "other" way of rendering fonts is objectively bad. Also the Linux machines Dell ships all have 4k displays, and it's objectively difficult to render fonts poorly at those DPIs. That probably helps. I use msys at work, despite WSL. It's just... easier. Haven't been able to get into powershell, but were I to go all in on the windows platform, I'd probably try to start there.
- robenkleene 7y agoDHH (the original author) in the comments[1]: “I would like to try a good Linux laptop combo next.“ 1: https://m.signalvnoise.com/back-to-windows-after-twenty-years/#comment-28491 https://m.signalvnoise.com/back-to-windows-after-twenty-year...