VSCode and WSL makes Windows awesome for web development

He starts by comparing a desktop cpu to a laptop cpu, and a desktop cpu that can turbo up to some 250w. The Dell XPS he links to is a desktop too. I agree there is a lot of value to having a beast of a desktop. Before we all switched to laptops at work I never had an issue with running Visual Studio. What I don’t like is all the fan noise, heat and wasted energy, I would love a desktop that could go from sipping energy to beast mode.

As someone who has developed on Windows for decades I can’t help but laugh at these newcomer takes on Windows. The only redeeming feature is that you can use a slow running Linux inside of it to get all your dev tools working and have Windows as like a hardware compatibility layer. If you’re using a Framework laptop that supports Linux then surely you would just want to boot into Linux.

I dunno, if you've got a desktop, then you could just run linux, then you can do your normal dev stuff on it (I mean, I guess you may have issues with games, but proton+steam deck is making this less of an issue). This avoid the mess that is the start menu, edge taking over stuff, and generally Windows being Windows.

I switched to mac in 2008 after meeting DHH at railsconf 2008 in portland, I switched to windows last year to run AI models on nvidia rtx 4090, good to see DHH is now willing to switch back to windows workflow