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I work in mobile gaming. A lot of used macs because you need to for iPhone development. During covid a lot of us started using our beefy windows gaming computer
by nightowl_games 3y ago
I work in mobile gaming. A lot of used macs because you need to for iPhone development. During covid a lot of us started using our beefy windows gaming computers for development because Unity ran faster. A lot of us have stayed on those beefy boxes.
Personally I use Linux 90% of the time but for a long time I would regularly develop on 3 different machines: windows desktop, Linux laptop, MacBook. VSCode running on all three is a big improvement to this style of development. The windows terminal, annoying symlinks, line endings, PATH annoyances, were all perpetually annoying, but once you were set up, windows machines honestly feel pretty snappy.
- karmakaze 3y agoOne reason I don't use Linux as much as I'd like is custom keyboard layouts (in addition to Mac/Windows only software). I have to make two for terminal and X11 apps. And another for Wayland. I haven't found an inline USB mapper though that shouldn't be so hard.
- nightowl_games 3y agoWhat hardware you using? I have my keyboard remapped a bit on Linux and it was a pain to figure out the first time. I'm sure it can be done for you tho. I remapped alt to control and made alt tab still work. So my Linux laptop has the keyboard feel of a mac. For some reason I didn't do this on my desktop and I mindlessly swap between the two.
- karmakaze 3y agoI'm using a typical ten-keyless keyboard that otherwise has a standard US 103 ANSI layout. My need for remapping keys is for the letters as I accidentally developed[0] my own custom non-Qwerty layout[1] that turned out to be very similar to NIRO. [0] https://github.com/qwickly-org/Qwickly https://github.com/qwickly-org/Qwickly [1] https://github.com/qwickly-org/QwickSteps https://github.com/qwickly-org/QwickSteps