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Ask HN: Why did you switch from Mac to Windows?

4 points by enw 6y ago

pettycashstash2 6y ago
I didn’t. I never left windows, but am slowly entering Linux land.
- enw 6y ago
  How do accomplish all the tasks that Unix tools enable with minimal effort?
  - pettycashstash2 6y ago
    I dont understand the question. can you rephrase?
phendrenad2 6y ago
I haven't. Mac is still the best platform for web development. As a web developer, I'll be sticking with Mac for the near term. That said, Windows is my daily driver for personal computing and side projects (including my own web dev projects). WSL is really great.
jquast 6y ago
Forced to by employer I grew up on Windows and did win32/C++ for years during the XP era. I'm over it. The OS kills hundreds of hours of typical productivity each year, with forced updates at working hours, or fail your computer entirely, Windows defender that thrashes source and build folders, settings reverting and being ignored (like please update off-hours and please ignore my build folders...) i never thought I'd say it but even Linux has become easier to use in the sense it is not hostile against business users performing work during work hours?! I can leave everything just as I like it on a Friday evening and jump back into it Monday morning in mere seconds, not so with Windows. I think Microsoft is part of an international conspiracy to keep upper-middle class mediocre white men employed doing barely any work. Making an unpredictable ever-changing UX, a resource-starving OS, and random forced updates are a big part of this. Windows is the OS for the boomer generation, may they die together in peace.
- pettycashstash2 6y ago
  "I think Microsoft is part of an international conspiracy to keep upper-middle class mediocre white men employed doing barely any work. Making an unpredictable ever-changing UX, a resource-starving OS, and random forced updates are a big part of this." Loved this part of your comment. made me chuckle, even though its a conspiracy meme.

4 points by enw 6y ago

pettycashstash2 6y ago

I didn’t. I never left windows, but am slowly entering Linux land.

enw 6y ago
How do accomplish all the tasks that Unix tools enable with minimal effort?
- pettycashstash2 6y ago
  I dont understand the question. can you rephrase?

phendrenad2 6y ago

I haven't. Mac is still the best platform for web development. As a web developer, I'll be sticking with Mac for the near term. That said, Windows is my daily driver for personal computing and side projects (including my own web dev projects). WSL is really great.

jquast 6y ago

Forced to by employer I grew up on Windows and did win32/C++ for years during the XP era. I'm over it. The OS kills hundreds of hours of typical productivity each year, with forced updates at working hours, or fail your computer entirely, Windows defender that thrashes source and build folders, settings reverting and being ignored (like please update off-hours and please ignore my build folders...) i never thought I'd say it but even Linux has become easier to use in the sense it is not hostile against business users performing work during work hours?! I can leave everything just as I like it on a Friday evening and jump back into it Monday morning in mere seconds, not so with Windows. I think Microsoft is part of an international conspiracy to keep upper-middle class mediocre white men employed doing barely any work. Making an unpredictable ever-changing UX, a resource-starving OS, and random forced updates are a big part of this. Windows is the OS for the boomer generation, may they die together in peace.

pettycashstash2 6y ago
"I think Microsoft is part of an international conspiracy to keep upper-middle class mediocre white men employed doing barely any work. Making an unpredictable ever-changing UX, a resource-starving OS, and random forced updates are a big part of this." Loved this part of your comment. made me chuckle, even though its a conspiracy meme.