[hpcjoe]

> > A few Perl one-liners and I have 2 GB processed in a couple of minutes. > This matches my experience: my task is IO bound, processing tens of GB in a matter of minutes.

Huh. Windows is usually anywhere between bad to horrible at IO compared to alternatives. 2GB processing (usually mixtures of regex, summarizing data, summing fields extracted) shouldn't take more than a few seconds. Even on a slow disk, say 100MB/s, we are talking 20s. On faster SSDs, and NVMe, its very snappy.

If you are waiting minutes ...

> Windows 10 and 11 are a pleasure to use: between the Windows Terminal and tools like AutoHotKey, there's no Linux equivalent, even for a commandline geek.

Huh. I'm happy that $dayjob gave me the option of getting off my horrible Dell workstation laptop (8 core, 64 GB ram, nvidia graphics) and onto a mac pro m1. While the keyboard diff is annoying, karabiner elements fixes most of that. I still ask for a linux laptop at ever opportunity though, as this is what I'm most functional with. Easily the best/fastest experience I've had for dev/admin, and the most stable. Mac is a close second.