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I spent roughly 1999-2015 trying mightily to get off Windows and become Linux only. I finally decided that the Linux desktop was never going to solve its featur
by wrp 6y ago
I spent roughly 1999-2015 trying mightily to get off Windows and become Linux only. I finally decided that the Linux desktop was never going to solve its feature and compatibility shortcomings to make that possible. I much prefer Linux as a development environment, but for anything related to office productivity, compatibility issues force me to be on Windows so much that it's not worth the effort to switch to Linux for the few things that I could do there. I could rant about lost opportunities, but that's already been done many times by others.
- mixmastamyk 6y agoOffice productivity is now in the cloud.
- 1_player 6y agoI found my peak of productivity with WSL2 and an Arch Linux VM. Truly the best of both worlds.
- neurostimulant 6y agoI think switching to linux will become easier going forward simply because developers are embracing web technologies and developing their apps as a webapp and/or electron apps. Sure it's not ideal but makes switching os trivial because most of your "apps" are available via a web browser or as an electron app. Many orgs are migrating to google apps or office 365 online and do their document editing online these days. Can't have office version compatibility issue if all your docs are in google apps.