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As a general purpose OS, I actually quite like Windows 11, its nice, clean, and beautiful. But unfortunately, Windows is not there for development. I've used WS
by wizwit999 4y ago
As a general purpose OS, I actually quite like Windows 11, its nice, clean, and beautiful. But unfortunately, Windows is not there for development. I've used WSL for years and its actually gotten much worse with WSL2, especially with Docker. Specifically, I'd be plagued by this issue (https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166), where Docker would eat all the WSL memory and never release it. I finally pulled the plug and use Ubuntu 22 as as a daily OS (on dual boot), the UX is not bad, e.g. I was actually pleasantly surprised by the smoothness of the windowing gestures as a first time user, but there are many warts (e.g. very janky around sleeping/hibernating). I mostly develop and browse the web so its OK overall.
MacOS is very good, no real complaints.
- cyberninja123 4y agoThanks for the insight. Regarding the memory problem, how about installing massive amounts of Ram? It's cheap and a lot of laptops outside the Apple realm have open memory slots
- wizwit999 4y agore the memory, More RAM won't help, the bug was that docker would eat all the memory you give it. The mitigation was to limit your WSL memory.
- aborsy 4y agoUbuntu has been better than McOS in my experience. When there are issues, at least you can search and resolve them.