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Linux on the desktop was great when I was in high school and college and had tons of free time to investigate, debug, and understand things and very little mone

Linux on the desktop was great when I was in high school and college and had tons of free time to investigate, debug, and understand things and very little money to spend on solutions. I learned a lot. Now I have far less time and far more money. I use Windows. It just works.

tombert 5y ago
I don't run desktop Linux anymore because I got a substantial discount on a Macbook about a year ago and my current laptop was falling apart, but I really don't feel like this has been an issue in the last ~5 years (at least for me). Before last year, I had run Linux for nearly ten years, and the last five of which I would typically be happy enough if I just flashed Ubuntu to a flash drive, plugged into my laptop, installed, and moved on with my life. Generally, Linux would just work; I would get my games through Steam, basically everything else through the Ubuntu store, and things generally worked fine out of the box. I will say that prior to ~2016, it was a completely different story. Whenever I had to reinstall Linux (which was frequent), I could expect to spend several hours hunting down drivers and figuring out how to finagle GRUB or DKMS to work, but I largely don't feel like this is an issue anymore, at least not with the "mainstream" distros like Ubuntu or Suse.
dragonelite 5y ago
Same here that is why im waiting on hopefully some indepth reviews/benchmarks about the m1 pro and max. Because windows is usually a 2nd rate citizen when it comes to dev tools and gets the cool stuff usually as last. Mac usually gets 1st class citizen treatment.
- watermelon0 5y ago
  This might change in the near future, with WSL2/WSLg. Additionally, unless ARM starts replacing x86 on servers, WSL2/x86 is a lot closer to the production setup, than either emulation on M1, or developing for ARM platform, and targeting x86 in production.
IshKebab 5y ago
Exactly the same. I just hope they don't fill Windows with ads.

tombert 5y ago

I don't run desktop Linux anymore because I got a substantial discount on a Macbook about a year ago and my current laptop was falling apart, but I really don't feel like this has been an issue in the last ~5 years (at least for me). Before last year, I had run Linux for nearly ten years, and the last five of which I would typically be happy enough if I just flashed Ubuntu to a flash drive, plugged into my laptop, installed, and moved on with my life. Generally, Linux would just work; I would get my games through Steam, basically everything else through the Ubuntu store, and things generally worked fine out of the box. I will say that prior to ~2016, it was a completely different story. Whenever I had to reinstall Linux (which was frequent), I could expect to spend several hours hunting down drivers and figuring out how to finagle GRUB or DKMS to work, but I largely don't feel like this is an issue anymore, at least not with the "mainstream" distros like Ubuntu or Suse.

dragonelite 5y ago

Same here that is why im waiting on hopefully some indepth reviews/benchmarks about the m1 pro and max. Because windows is usually a 2nd rate citizen when it comes to dev tools and gets the cool stuff usually as last. Mac usually gets 1st class citizen treatment.

watermelon0 5y ago
This might change in the near future, with WSL2/WSLg. Additionally, unless ARM starts replacing x86 on servers, WSL2/x86 is a lot closer to the production setup, than either emulation on M1, or developing for ARM platform, and targeting x86 in production.

IshKebab 5y ago

Exactly the same. I just hope they don't fill Windows with ads.