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Oh please. Tell me you are a Linux zealot without telling me you are a Linux zealot. Its a tool in the toolbox. I use Linux everyday on servers at work, two

by ygjb 5y ago

Oh please. Tell me you are a Linux zealot without telling me you are a Linux zealot. Its a tool in the toolbox. I use Linux everyday on servers at work, two desktops at home, and servers for my partners businesses. My main personal notebook is a windows device w/WSL and my main work notebook is a MacOS device, because at the end of the day, I need my computer's to just work, painlessly. WSL is great for alot of Linux userspace stuff and is a fantastic CLI for interacting with and managing remote servers, alongside the ease of Windows. Of course it's not as performance, and had some edges, but I happily accept the trade-offs due to great driver support and the flexibility to run almost any software on one device.

tragictrash 5y ago
I think you misunderstood that remark intended to be humorous. Its too bad you took offense. Your right about it being a tool. A tool which has better alternatives. A virtual machine running in virtual box or some other vendor's VM has literally none of the limitations that wsl2 does. WSL 2 Doesn't fully support all userspace stuff, I bump into that all the time. You can ssh into other boxes using PowerShell. It is objectively bad compared to the alternatives.
- Osiris 5y ago
  "better"? Every tool has pros and cons and tradeoffs. I run Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Each one has it's pros and cons. Each is the "better" tool depending on the need. The same goes for programming languages and engineering problems. I train my team to identify multiple possible solutions to a problem then identify pros and cons and then pick the solution that optimizes for the most important goal. There is rarely a "right" solution.
  - JonChesterfield 5y ago
    There is rarely a right solution but there are always wrong ones. Searching for pareto optimal contours is great but implies the existence of pareto pessimal contours where N poor solutions combine to make something maximally rubbish. Software dev is not in a design space where all things are broadly equivalent with small pros and cons to choose between. It's more a discontinuous surface with orders of magnitude of cost/benefit changes as one meanders over a given cliff.
    - tragictrash 5y ago
      This cliff being performance, stability and my sanity.

by ygjb 5y ago

tragictrash 5y ago

I think you misunderstood that remark intended to be humorous. Its too bad you took offense. Your right about it being a tool. A tool which has better alternatives. A virtual machine running in virtual box or some other vendor's VM has literally none of the limitations that wsl2 does. WSL 2 Doesn't fully support all userspace stuff, I bump into that all the time. You can ssh into other boxes using PowerShell. It is objectively bad compared to the alternatives.

Osiris 5y ago
"better"? Every tool has pros and cons and tradeoffs. I run Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Each one has it's pros and cons. Each is the "better" tool depending on the need. The same goes for programming languages and engineering problems. I train my team to identify multiple possible solutions to a problem then identify pros and cons and then pick the solution that optimizes for the most important goal. There is rarely a "right" solution.
- JonChesterfield 5y ago
  There is rarely a right solution but there are always wrong ones. Searching for pareto optimal contours is great but implies the existence of pareto pessimal contours where N poor solutions combine to make something maximally rubbish. Software dev is not in a design space where all things are broadly equivalent with small pros and cons to choose between. It's more a discontinuous surface with orders of magnitude of cost/benefit changes as one meanders over a given cliff.
  - tragictrash 5y ago
    This cliff being performance, stability and my sanity.