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Not a developer but a system admin, running Windows with WSL because there are a few utilities that I need to use that are Linux only. - Work, all of the serve

Not a developer but a system admin, running Windows with WSL because there are a few utilities that I need to use that are Linux only. - Work, all of the servers and workstations we have are Windows, management tools are Windows only. - Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat are just some of the programs that won't run on Linux. Our remote access tool won't run on Mac or Linux. I can technically RDP to a server but at that point I might as well be running Windows. - It just works. I'm running a Surface Laptop 4 but we can buy any computer on the market and guarantee that Windows 10 will run flawlessly on it. Driver support is first class, and backwards compatibility is amazing. We can run 20 year old CAD software on 10 with no issues. I must be the luckiest user in the world, using Windows 10 on all my devices and I've never had the issues other people report. My files have never deleted themselves, it's rock solid and fast, never crashes.

csdvrx 5y ago
> I must be the luckiest user in the world, using Windows 10 on all my devices and I've never had the issues other people report. My files have never deleted themselves, it's rock solid and fast, never crashes. You and me both: I tried very hard to use Linux, but I couldn't find any compelling reason to stick to it. Having zfs snapshots would be nice, but not given the various pains Linux entails on the UI. AutoHotKey has no serious match on Linux, but it's not the main reason I stick to Windows: it's the terminal support. I'm a heavy terminal user, and I found my experience seriously worse on Linux than on Windows, with no way to replicate something as good as mintty. I seriously considered finding a way to make mintty work on wine, before giving up. When Windows Terminal achieves sixel support, maybe we'll see a port of WT to Linux? That'd be fun :) Like with Edge on Linux that may incentivize me to try Ubuntu again!
- rbanffy 5y ago
  Gnome terminal is about to get sixel support anytime soon, as is Windows Terminal. There is a lot of discussion on how to properly support it in a way that doesn't break legacy applications that used it while, at the same time, providing a good experience for the new ones. I never imagined that mintty would support Tektronix graphics, much less the dual-color storage tubes!
rbanffy 5y ago
Why are you doing with Acrobat that require Adobe's Acrobat instead of either a "save as PDF" or a PDF viewer?
- jonathantf2 5y ago
  Work pays for it, I use it as a PDF editor as well as converting documents etc.

csdvrx 5y ago

> I must be the luckiest user in the world, using Windows 10 on all my devices and I've never had the issues other people report. My files have never deleted themselves, it's rock solid and fast, never crashes. You and me both: I tried very hard to use Linux, but I couldn't find any compelling reason to stick to it. Having zfs snapshots would be nice, but not given the various pains Linux entails on the UI. AutoHotKey has no serious match on Linux, but it's not the main reason I stick to Windows: it's the terminal support. I'm a heavy terminal user, and I found my experience seriously worse on Linux than on Windows, with no way to replicate something as good as mintty. I seriously considered finding a way to make mintty work on wine, before giving up. When Windows Terminal achieves sixel support, maybe we'll see a port of WT to Linux? That'd be fun :) Like with Edge on Linux that may incentivize me to try Ubuntu again!

rbanffy 5y ago
Gnome terminal is about to get sixel support anytime soon, as is Windows Terminal. There is a lot of discussion on how to properly support it in a way that doesn't break legacy applications that used it while, at the same time, providing a good experience for the new ones. I never imagined that mintty would support Tektronix graphics, much less the dual-color storage tubes!

rbanffy 5y ago

Why are you doing with Acrobat that require Adobe's Acrobat instead of either a "save as PDF" or a PDF viewer?

jonathantf2 5y ago
Work pays for it, I use it as a PDF editor as well as converting documents etc.