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Just wait until you try linux

I started off with Windows development. Later on I developed using Windows terminal and WSL. I've also done development on Mac. Then one fine day I tried Linux. It blew my mind. What is coming to Windows now is a pale imitation of what Linux has been having for decades. Amazing terminals, terminal multiplexers, tiling window managers, keyboard driven tools, package managers...

I really regret those years lost.

Ok, this comment had me actually laughing out loud.

That said, the situation with W10+WSL reminds me a bit of the early days around OS X when we suddenly had a consumer grade desktop Unix experience. W10+WSL is clunkier, but trending in a decent direction.

With Windows 11 turning people off because it's forcing TPM-only hardware for both developers and users in general, I wouldn't be surprised if Windows 11 marks the final exodus for developers leaving for Mac and Linux.

You seem to think that devs are even able to decide what os they use...

Most corps I worked at had a specific setup I was required to use, which was generally windows.

If a big corp wants devs to start building for Windows 11, they're going to have to replace all/most machines given TPM 2 is kind of new.

It's further down the lock-in road, and if big corps want those handcuffs, good luck to them.

Specially anything X-Windows related, pure easy. /s

I think Windows/WSL2 might just be the most user friendly Linux distribution, and this includes graphics support, if you are on Win 11.

For people like myself, that care mostly about UNIX/POSIX than Linux in particular, had Microsoft been serious about the NT POSIX subsystem, most likely Linux wouldn't have taken off as it did.

I still think macOS is the most user friendly UNIX, though.

As for WSL, I really don't care about it, I have been using VMWare with Linux distributions for about 10 years now.

I’ll disagree with you- Linux very much took off because it’s license is cost free and there was/is an influential FLOSS software philosophical movement.

Sure that is why people buy macs instead of supporting Linux OEMs, and are everywhere to be seen at FOSDEM.

Where are those philosophers?

I would like to know where would Linux be without Intel, Compaq, IBM and Oracle's money that started being pumped around 2000.

Even Wikipedia mentions it.

Tried that for decades, why do you think I'm not macOS and Windows now?

Because you not tried Haiku yet.

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