[svennidal]

I do my work on a mac because I don't like the nuisance of trying to do it on windows. There is always some wonkiness that I don't even bother to remember the details of, because the solution is just to do it on mac.

I rather play games on windows because I don't like the nuisance of trying to do it on mac. There is always some wonkiness that I don't even bother to remember the details of, because the solution is just to do it on windows.

[mmmpetrichor]

counterpoint as a dev who works with k8s and wants a linux env:. I was told to get a mac when I joined and I wish I hadnt. WSL and vscode remote ssh make windows better for linux dev. the alternative is getting a parallels license. I mainly use vscode to remote to linux machines now and ignore my mac and wish it didn't exist. also as a longtime windows user i think the windows desktop is just better. window management, multimonitor, hell even launching apps is slow as shit on my mac m1 compared to my windows pc.

[mmmpetrichor]

bottom line: I dont know what dev workflows are better on mac, but if its linux, windows is now more linuxy than mac. imo.

[didibus]

Disagree, after doing WSL2 development for 2 years, and switching to mac, it's way nicer now. Mostly because, Windows is still crap, and windows laptops are the worse. WSL2 is also pretty bad with GUIs, even with everything I tried.

[ddtaylor]

I don't use Windows, but WSL is legit IMO

[bee_rider]

Steam, on Linux and Steam on Windows are very similar experiences. Is it much worse on the Mac?

[int_19h]

It's a similar experience, but the library of natively supported games is fairly small, and ports are often poor quality - especially older games that haven't been updated in a long time and are broken in various ways on newer Mac versions. The most common problem I run into is the lack of high-DPI support, which means that you can't run the game at full 4K even if your display supports it.

[ddtaylor]

This is a reason many Linux gamers just use the proton version of the games in Steam. It's more consistent.

[_bin_]

This is probably true though as a non-gamer and recent mac convert I have basically zero complaints. Windows these days is full of too much crap that sucks away attention and makes it hard to use.

Average windows experience:

Welcome to BING (tm) with your MSN chumbucket spam links! Here's a desktop notification for a "sweepstakes"; no, you didn't get adware, just MS Windows! Enjoy this full-screen pop-up telling you to "prepare for windows 11" that completely disrupts your workflow when you're in the zone! Your computer is running slowly? Oh yeah, that's windows defender sucking up half your CPU, because not scanning every file would be a Security Risk (TM)! Want to turn that off? No worries, but you can't do that on the home edition because we don't give you group policy editor! If you do it anyway, we will re-enable this "feature" with every update and change the precise incantation of powershell miscellany, regedits, and menus that haven't been updated since the nineties you need to turn it off again!

We hope you enjoy your Windows (TM) 11 (TM) experience!

It's like fisher price, a casino mogul, and a schizo got together to cook up the latest batch of whatever slop microsquash is trying to pass off as a legit OS. Which is a shame, because the technical fundamentals are actually pretty sound. Some of this doesn't apply if you're using a corporate-managed machine, because companies don't want to put up with that nonsense, but a chunk of these annoyances still does.

It's weird to say but I enjoy using a computer to get stuff done substantially more after no longer using windows. While I still like linux, a bunch of software I need doesn't really work, and I don't have time to dick around with wine when I'm trying to do a job, so I'm glad there's a reasonably non-garbage option.

Windows will probably be the default corporate os for the forseeable future, but if the only people who actually have reasons to use it are "gamers", that should be a wake-up call for the ms product guys.

[ewoodrich]

I simply run this Powershell script once on a fresh install of Windows 11 and don't have to deal with any annoyances even after updates.

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

I daily drive MacOS, Windows 11 and Linux Mint on different devices and Windows doesn't particularly bother me post de-bloating, and it easily has the most reliable multi monitor/variable DPI when docking/undocking of the three in my experience.

[_bin_]

I used to lean heavily on stuff like this. Unfortunately, in recent years, something's changed with MS and they've started breaking stuff subtly in ways that shows up a few months later when you try to do something. This leads to either reimaging or a painful process tracking down some really obscure relationship. Not fun and not worth it, though I very much wish it worked like it used to.

Glad it's still working for some folks.