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I run Win10 for my personal dev machine. High performance on commodity hardware, without the Apple pricetag or Linux config headaches (particularly caused by GP

I run Win10 for my personal dev machine. High performance on commodity hardware, without the Apple pricetag or Linux config headaches (particularly caused by GPUs in both instances). It has WSL for a terminal and Docker for projects with environmental assumptions (node, postgres, etc). It's not without quirks, but for me, it matches the productivity of OSX and Ubuntu while opening up possibilities they lack (like straightforward gaming, game/VR development, building the machine into a desk so it's invisible in my office).

GordonS 6y ago
I feel the same, but actually far prefer Windows 10 to MacOS (I've been a Windows user far longer than a MacOS user tho). For server, I'm all-in on Linux - it's the perfect server OS. But for desktop, I reckon Windows 10 is the best desktop OS by a stretch, and everything "just works" - whereas even on MacOS I have constant issues with multiple monitor and hi-DPI support, never mind Linux. I prefer bash to the Windows command prompt or Powershell, and Git Bash fulfils pretty much all of my needs there. Otherwise I have WSL available. For backend services used during development (postgres, rabbitmq, redis, whatever), there is Docker Desktop, which was a bit dodgy in the early years, but has worked marvellously for a long time now. TBH, I'm struggling to think of anything Linux or MacOS has that Windows 10 doesn't...
- hunterloftis 6y ago
  > TBH, I'm struggling to think of anything Linux or MacOS has that Windows 10 doesn't... The issues that still bug me are: 1. Less-useful keyboard navigation (I use Autohotkey to mitigate this) 2. Frustrating file system (I use WSL to `rm -rf` sometimes when Windows refuses to let me delete a file or folder) 3. Less coherent / polished app ecosystem (Linux distros use real package managers and OSX apps tend to be higher quality; Windows is a crapshoot)
  - GordonS 6y ago
    1. TBH this isn't an issue for me. I'd argue any real problems with keyboard nav are application-specific 2. OK, this does bite me rarely, where I can't delete a folder because of messed up permissions. Probably last time was a couple of years back 3. I disagree about the app ecosystem, but fully agree about package managers. The Windows installer system is horrible - I'd rather grate my face than have to build another MSI package...
ziftface 6y ago
I felt the same about Linux until I started using an AMD GPU and found out the problem was actually Nvidia. My Linux desktop now runs really smoothly with no configuration needed.
- hunterloftis 6y ago
  I would love to be happy with Linux as a daily driver. It's been years since I last tried it, and I would give it a shot on this machine, but I've got an Nvidia GPU!

GordonS 6y ago

I feel the same, but actually far prefer Windows 10 to MacOS (I've been a Windows user far longer than a MacOS user tho). For server, I'm all-in on Linux - it's the perfect server OS. But for desktop, I reckon Windows 10 is the best desktop OS by a stretch, and everything "just works" - whereas even on MacOS I have constant issues with multiple monitor and hi-DPI support, never mind Linux. I prefer bash to the Windows command prompt or Powershell, and Git Bash fulfils pretty much all of my needs there. Otherwise I have WSL available. For backend services used during development (postgres, rabbitmq, redis, whatever), there is Docker Desktop, which was a bit dodgy in the early years, but has worked marvellously for a long time now. TBH, I'm struggling to think of anything Linux or MacOS has that Windows 10 doesn't...

hunterloftis 6y ago
> TBH, I'm struggling to think of anything Linux or MacOS has that Windows 10 doesn't... The issues that still bug me are: 1. Less-useful keyboard navigation (I use Autohotkey to mitigate this) 2. Frustrating file system (I use WSL to `rm -rf` sometimes when Windows refuses to let me delete a file or folder) 3. Less coherent / polished app ecosystem (Linux distros use real package managers and OSX apps tend to be higher quality; Windows is a crapshoot)
- GordonS 6y ago
  1. TBH this isn't an issue for me. I'd argue any real problems with keyboard nav are application-specific 2. OK, this does bite me rarely, where I can't delete a folder because of messed up permissions. Probably last time was a couple of years back 3. I disagree about the app ecosystem, but fully agree about package managers. The Windows installer system is horrible - I'd rather grate my face than have to build another MSI package...

ziftface 6y ago

I felt the same about Linux until I started using an AMD GPU and found out the problem was actually Nvidia. My Linux desktop now runs really smoothly with no configuration needed.

hunterloftis 6y ago
I would love to be happy with Linux as a daily driver. It's been years since I last tried it, and I would give it a shot on this machine, but I've got an Nvidia GPU!