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Does anyone even use Linux for desktops anymore?
 
rorz0r said:
Does anyone even use Linux for desktops anymore?
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Windows is not really suitable for development, unless you're developing for Windows / .NET. Ruby, NodeJS, Python, Rust, Go are all a pain to get a proper development environment setup on Windows. I've heard the Windows Subsystem for Linux can help with this, but I haven't tried it yet.

Macs are also great for development, but a decent Macbook Pro costs about double a decent Dell notebook.

It may take more effort to keep a Linux desktop running than an equivalent Mac, but it's good experience if your job involves working with Linux servers. Over the last couple of years the experience is also much more stable (less hardware issues) than previously, especially if you get a notebook with properly supported hardware (like many Dell's).

That said, I'm still the only one in my company of about 40 people running Linux desktop...
 
rorz0r said:
Does anyone even use Linux for desktops anymore?
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I feel much more at home in Linux than I do in Windows. For some strange reason, I keep Windows 10 on my laptop, but all I ever do in Windows 10 is update. Sometimes I optimize (trim) the Windows partition on my SSD because I don't use Windows often enough for it to run once a week.

Actually, I think the only reason I keep Windows 10 is because it is my first ever legal copy of Windows, believe it or not.

Edit: I also run "clean disk" quite often because I've only allocated 100GB of my 500GB drive to Windows.

The weather app looks spectacular, but it is no more accurate than any other weather app out there.
Flipboard is also nice, but the font rendering isn't particularly good (actually in Windows as a whole) and I don't think it is possible to change the font size in Flipboard.

The whole "Linux on Ubuntu on Windows on Linux on Ubuntu on Windows", or whatever it is called, is completely unnecessary for my needs.

Anyway, that is my Windows experience.
 
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falcrum said:
Windows is not really suitable for development, unless you're developing for Windows / .NET. Ruby, NodeJS, Python, Rust, Go are all a pain to get a proper development environment setup on Windows.
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I found NodeJS and Python trivial to set up on Windows. Looking at the instructions Rust looks to be trivial too.

It may take more effort to keep a Linux desktop running than an equivalent Mac, but it's good experience if your job involves working with Linux servers.
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Unless you're an administrator you pretty much won't be doing a lot more than your programming work on them. But my life isn't infinitely long, so I'd rather not spend it mucking around with maintaining a Linux desktop unless I truly can't put together the money for a Mac.
 
noxibox said:
I found NodeJS and Python trivial to set up on Windows. Looking at the instructions Rust looks to be trivial too.


Unless you're an administrator you pretty much won't be doing a lot more than your programming work on them. But my life isn't infinitely long, so I'd rather not spend it mucking around with maintaining a Linux desktop unless I truly can't put together the money for a Mac.
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You are pretty clueless on what can be done on a Linux desktop. I have been using it as my main OS for over 15 years now and I am not a programmer and its take less maintenance that a windows desktop.
 
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