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I'm very much a Linux-head since the 0.98a days, and my desktop computer that I mostly use for recording music is OSX. Mainly I've avoided Windows for a variety
by ksaj 7y ago
I'm very much a Linux-head since the 0.98a days, and my desktop computer that I mostly use for recording music is OSX. Mainly I've avoided Windows for a variety of personal reasons. I also have a dozen Raspberry Pis running Linux, so I try to keep everything reasonably similar.
Recently I bought matching laptops for myself and my non-technical partner. For ease of maintenance, I left Windows 10 on both of them, and set up LSW under Windows Terminal (versus Windows Console, which is far too limited for that use).
Dragging the terminal window to the edge of the screen does a half-screen maximize, and then I have Chrome browser take up 3/4 of the opposite side of the screen. I use tmux to split that screen in half so I effectively have 2 terminals available immediately, and of course tabs. So it literally feels like I have 2 operating systems on one screen. Most importantly, with the newer WSL you can simply add 'export DISPLAY=:0' to the end of .bashrc to run GUI apps without the added overhead of whatever remote desktop software.
Having done that means I can keep our music files in sync (MusicBee), all our shared resources are compatible in exactly the same way, and I still have something of a familiar Linux experience at my fingertips when working on either laptop.
Also, Windows 10 seems 10x better than the previous Windows versions I've tried and worked with in the past. It's still sluggish and has annoying things popping up and dinging, but it's easy enough to get used to, given the ease of maintenance for everything else.