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I think they're focusing on developers, most of which are either planning a move to something else, wishing they could move or have already left.

by diggan 1y ago

Bolwin 1y ago
50% of devs use windows. Personally, what dev related motivation I had to move to Linux disappeared when wsl got decent. That said, 90% of my work is still in windows proper, so any universal tool like git related needs to support it to be any use. And if not me, anyone else you're collaborating with.
- pessimizer 1y ago
  The motivation you had to move to Linux evaporated when you started regularly using Linux, and it's important to consider Windows developers, for whom it's now easy to use Linux without completely moving to Linux.
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
  That feels like a contradiction; either WSL is a good solution and you can just run radicle there, or it isn't.
  - jayd16 1y ago
    Good enough in a pinch to prevent a switch but not good enough to do all your work in the wsl filesystem.
    - packetlost 1y ago
      WSL... filesystem? Either way, I firmly disagree, there are not many cases where I've been unable to do dev work on WSL. Only when I need particularly weird / specific networking or hardware (ie. GPU, which might work now) have I had significant problems.
      - jayd16 1y ago
        File IO from windows into the wsl disk and vice-versa is significantly slower so it's not great to, for example, use wsl git on a project living under your windows user directory or visual studio on a directory under your wsl home. I think they're just using FUSE to make it work but don't quote me on that part.
        packetlost 1y ago
        Oh that use case isn't great yeah. They probably aren't using FUSE, they notably use 9P a networked filesystem protocol from Plan9. If you operate fully inside of WSL (either via X11 or in a terminal) it's a pretty good experience.
        yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
        Last I heard, using native git on Windows was slow anyways? Something about how NT handles files. So even with git it was already best to keep things inside WSL and just use ex. VS Code with a remote in WSL, and at that point it doesn't matter if you use radicle in WSL instead of git.
- diggan 1y ago
  > 50% of devs use windows. Sure, not doubting that, I'm also a developer, and use Windows. But not because I want to, which I feel is a pretty common position to be in, at least around me.

I think they're focusing on developers, most of which are either planning a move to something else, wishing they could move or have already left.

by diggan 1y ago

I think they're focusing on developers, most of which are either planning a move to something else, wishing they could move or have already left.

Bolwin 1y ago

50% of devs use windows. Personally, what dev related motivation I had to move to Linux disappeared when wsl got decent. That said, 90% of my work is still in windows proper, so any universal tool like git related needs to support it to be any use. And if not me, anyone else you're collaborating with.

pessimizer 1y ago
The motivation you had to move to Linux evaporated when you started regularly using Linux, and it's important to consider Windows developers, for whom it's now easy to use Linux without completely moving to Linux.
yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
That feels like a contradiction; either WSL is a good solution and you can just run radicle there, or it isn't.
- jayd16 1y ago
  Good enough in a pinch to prevent a switch but not good enough to do all your work in the wsl filesystem.
  - packetlost 1y ago
    WSL... filesystem? Either way, I firmly disagree, there are not many cases where I've been unable to do dev work on WSL. Only when I need particularly weird / specific networking or hardware (ie. GPU, which might work now) have I had significant problems.
    - jayd16 1y ago
      File IO from windows into the wsl disk and vice-versa is significantly slower so it's not great to, for example, use wsl git on a project living under your windows user directory or visual studio on a directory under your wsl home. I think they're just using FUSE to make it work but don't quote me on that part.
      - packetlost 1y ago
        Oh that use case isn't great yeah. They probably aren't using FUSE, they notably use 9P a networked filesystem protocol from Plan9. If you operate fully inside of WSL (either via X11 or in a terminal) it's a pretty good experience.
      - yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
        Last I heard, using native git on Windows was slow anyways? Something about how NT handles files. So even with git it was already best to keep things inside WSL and just use ex. VS Code with a remote in WSL, and at that point it doesn't matter if you use radicle in WSL instead of git.
diggan 1y ago
> 50% of devs use windows. Sure, not doubting that, I'm also a developer, and use Windows. But not because I want to, which I feel is a pretty common position to be in, at least around me.