Does it really matter in a development enviroment?
Yes 100%. There’s a good chance whatever you’re working on with be on Linux, so being on windows locally is just an extra layer for problems to manifest. Plus windows is just weird compared to everything else.
I don’t want to fuss with the OS. I just want the basics like ~, cat, grep, curl, etc to work. I don’t want OneDrive. You can go get tooling to make windows more linux-like but, like, why half ass it.
With containers I guess it matters less. You could have a Windows host and Linux container, and probably not cause any problems with case folding or line feeds, but again: why half ass it.
I just want the basics like ~, cat, grep, curl, etc to work.
I once had to install openssh on windows because the default util for ssh was ass, for some reason it would work very differently than every other client i tried
With containers I guess it matters less. You could have a Windows host and Linux container, and probably not cause any problems with case folding or line feeds, but again: why half ass it.
Containers are way more heavy on windows sadlyz that’s because you first need a VM of linux to make them work
Do you do software development work?
Yeah, i do it mainly on Windows for various reasons and it’s shit tbh
Some tools suck for windows, some doesn’t exist at all, i need too many siftwares to mimic Linux functionality, i have to install dependencies manually using installers sometimes if i am lucky they are on Scoop(a package manager for winslop), mess with env variables every 3 seconds and i want to kms
I can’t even use some C/C++ libraries (like ncurses 💔) and compilation documentations are always 3 times longer
Yes 100%. There’s a good chance whatever you’re working on with be on Linux, so being on windows locally is just an extra layer for problems to manifest. Plus windows is just weird compared to everything else.
I don’t want to fuss with the OS. I just want the basics like ~, cat, grep, curl, etc to work. I don’t want OneDrive. You can go get tooling to make windows more linux-like but, like, why half ass it.
With containers I guess it matters less. You could have a Windows host and Linux container, and probably not cause any problems with case folding or line feeds, but again: why half ass it.
Do you do software development work?
I once had to install openssh on windows because the default util for ssh was ass, for some reason it would work very differently than every other client i tried
Containers are way more heavy on windows sadlyz that’s because you first need a VM of linux to make them work
Yeah, i do it mainly on Windows for various reasons and it’s shit tbh
Some tools suck for windows, some doesn’t exist at all, i need too many siftwares to mimic Linux functionality, i have to install dependencies manually using installers sometimes if i am lucky they are on Scoop(a package manager for winslop), mess with env variables every 3 seconds and i want to kms
I can’t even use some C/C++ libraries (like ncurses 💔) and compilation documentations are always 3 times longer