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We got to choose a Thinkpad or Macbook Pro. I went with the Thinkpad and I wonder once in a while if I made the wrong choice. Things like WSL and Windows Termin

We got to choose a Thinkpad or Macbook Pro. I went with the Thinkpad and I wonder once in a while if I made the wrong choice. Things like WSL and Windows Terminal have made my life significantly easier and more productive, it's hard for me to overstate the value I get out of WSL in particular, so I always balk a bit when I hear something like "lol just use Linux". With JetBrains IDEs just recently having the ability to run things on remote machines (and VS Code having been able to do this for quite a while) I think the productivity gap between Windows and Linux is closing.

e3bc54b2 5y ago
It is closing, but it is still a valley. With WSL, I still have to account for poor FS performance when files are not in correct location. GUI is still not seamless (Wayland is coming, but not yet arrived). I still have to fight the terrible UX that is Windows DE, instead of natural flow of i3wm. Its the little things that eat up my cognitive budget that tire me way early in Windows compared to full fledged Linux distro.