solat

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   by solat 7y ago

   Do you mean the start menu? I never open it, just use Win + number for pinned apps. Windows is not perfect but it excels in many regards nowadays and the last years, Macs were really expensive and risky. They were too expensive to just have
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   by solat 7y ago

   re 'doubled perf': AMD Ryzen 4000 Notebooks are coming these days, not sure if the Macbook is then again old tech.
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   by solat 7y ago

   It is progress. Apple runs a monopoly, people seem to not be able to escape (I'm on Windows) and Apple has struggled to fix an utterly broken keyboard for 3 or more years. So, finally they did this on an entry model. Even I who gave up
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   by solat 7y ago

   Not really but when you try new config/Dockerfiles/docker-compose setups it's nice to have power + bandwidth. Thus, I develop on a remote server.
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   by solat 7y ago

   While this MBA turned out really well, current Windows featuring WSL2 is quite impressive though. Having a full Ubuntu or Debian on your machine is priceless. Or you develop on a remote server, then you just need a good terminal. So current