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by adam_arthur 1508 days ago
Out of the box windows management for MacOS is much worse than Windows, so not sure I follow? Power Toys does make Windows 10x better though... and they really should make it the default once it's fully stable.

I used to prefer MacOS for development, but Windows has far surpassed it in recent years, between native linux experience in WSL and better QOL tooling via Power Toys. The removal of vertical taskbar has been pretty annoying though... pretty awful on a 49" monitor. All that's left now is to get some 5nm chips in Windows machines
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Zardoz84 1508 days ago
Simply try a native Linux install. You will find far better that "our way or the highway" behavior of Windows and OSX .
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adam_arthur 1508 days ago
You get "native" linux on Windows with WSL. It's a linux container, but with nice integrations out of the box re: networking etc.

I'm not against running linux alone per se, but to me being able to run both Windows (with better app support, polish), and Linux at the same time is kind of the best of both worlds. Windows feels nicer as a daily driver, and can do all dev work directly in a linux environment

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bladegash 1508 days ago
I am a big fan of WSL and used it extensively for a while across multiple development environments. Also like using Windows a lot and feel more productive on it than Unix based systems.

However, I started to run into a lot of issues with the file systems being a bit too commingled though, especially when using things like VSCode’s WSL integrations where you’re regularly reading/writing to the Linux file system from Windows (or vice versa).

I guess I mention this to say that I ended up putting Ubuntu on a Hyper V VM and it was a huge improvement. If you enjoy WSL, but need something a bit less integrated, I highly recommend it. Using VSCode’s remote container/host extensions work just as well (if not better for things like Docker).

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adam_arthur 1508 days ago
Hmm was this for WSL v1? The previous implementation had pretty bad filesystem performance, but I haven't had any issues with WSL2. I host an app where I write gigs of data to disk every day without any perf issues.

But WSL1 would've been super slow for the same use case

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xen2xen1 1507 days ago
Keep thinking I need to use X from a Fedora box to my windows desktop. OK, now to look into that..
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withinboredom 1508 days ago
That assumes the kernel supports the hardware. There’s nothing more annoying than only having a left speaker work, or WiFi not working, etc
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