Can you be more specific? What exactly is horrible on Windows when you've tried coding?
- driver support was atrocious for Windows server, and also for Windows 10. Almost every component from a fairly standard Ryzen build installed some form of custom skinned crapware to get basic functionality
- spyware and advertising was everywhere.
- the UI is a mess of old and new. It's unforgivable that this far from Windows 8 there is still such a mix of metro and older UIs.
- mixed DPI support is poor leading to screens where elements are quite different sizes
These are not specific to coding, but in particular the advertising and spyware removes Windows as a contender for _any_ use from me.
After a brief foray into desktop Linux, I returned all the parts to Microcenter and went back to OS X.
SDI Tool Origin. Don't waste your time with everything else.
Ok, so it was not about coding after all.
I haven't seen any ads or spyware when I use Windows 10. Maybe I just don't install them.
Python and virtual environment a were bizarrely difficult to get working across my + my teammates computers.
Many useful packages weren’t on Windows, or if they were were awkward to install or just weren’t as fast.
Sure I can install WSL and just use that for everything, but then you get to a point where everything is kind of duplicated, and I’m doing everything in Linux anyways, so why not just use that and be done with it?
Windows never felt as fast as Linux, and using it just perpetually annoyed me.
- Graphical installers / no package manager
- No search results / docs for most languages
- Weird bugs due to being second class for most languages
- Have to use docker in VM
- Bad env for writing scripts
- We deploy on Linux
- IMHO PowerShell is not that bad, but the newer PowerShell Core works better and with WSL you can use your favorite linux shell (and mix and match Windows and Linux binaries)
- WinGet is in preview
- No search results: my experience is 50/50 on that
- second class citizen: I wouldn't say most, definitely for Golang
- Docker now runs on WSL2 (which is still a sort of VM, but in my experience it's night and day with the old VM and especially compared to the default Docker experience on macOS)
- Why? You can use Python, and scripts are where Powershell really shines as a language
- That's the entire point of WSL I guess
If I’m running everything in WSL/2 why not just run Linux? I don’t remember the last time I had to use something windows specific - and word is available online for the sporadic times that needs to be used.
About WSL, you're right: if you only use WSL it doesn't make sense to use Windows, but it's a good compromise for anyone who needs both at the same time (at least it's a better compromise than a VM)