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After using a macbook at work for a little more than a year, and after running linux at home for 7 years, i am unfortunate enough to land on a MS-only-and-exclu
by dgan 2y ago
After using a macbook at work for a little more than a year, and after running linux at home for 7 years, i am unfortunate enough to land on a MS-only-and-exclusively company.
We don't even have WSL. The development experience is as windows-y as you could imagine: deployment is a copy paste on a shared drive. Some internal package installation is a copy paste from a shared drive. External program installation is hunting on the Web. The terminal is light years behind what Unix has to offer.
Ah yes, and the laptop weights 5kg and holds the battery for 3h.
The only reason to use this platform is when you re a hostage and have a gun on your head
- majkinetor 2y agoAll that has nothing to do with Windows. The fact that you don't use automation, package managers, modern terminals etc tells about company, not the OS.
- shiroiushi 2y agoIt's exactly the type of development that's been encouraged by Windows since it started. It's only more recently that it's been possible or normal to adopt more modern practices. His company obvious is stuck in 2000.
- haunter 2y ago> and the laptop weights 5kg and holds the battery for 3h. I don't follow how is it Window's fault that your company is incompetent? I get +10 hours on the Thinkpad X1 Carbon and it's a ~1.5kg laptop