Comment by WayneDB | Hacker News Reader

Comment by WayneDB | Hacker News Reader

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There are all sorts of things in Ubuntu that I'd have to "completely disable" in order to make it do what I want. So what if I can pick apart the code and rebuild it? I don't ever want to do that.

Honestly - let's weigh the options here. With Windows I may have to beat the OS into submission once in a while, but I'd have even more work making Linux even fulfill the most basic requirement like...oh say, having "file creation time" stamps. (Now I know Ubuntu currently defaults to Ext4...but seriously - why did we need to wait so long for that?)

I'd rather pay Microsoft every month to use their tightly integrated, high quality computing ecosystem because it actually offers what I need with the least amount of hassle.

I hear this argument a lot. Do you fix your own car dude? Do you change the oil by yourself? I don't but I have a trustworthy mechanic that does it for me and I don't have to suffer the inflated prices of my car's manufacturer. This is even more important for transportation companies that have their own mechanics, just as many companies have their own IT department.

On the quality of Windows my experience has not been the same. For me working with it is like death by a few thousand cuts. Skipping over the fact that the developer tools that I need do not work well on Windows, every time I had problems I could find no way to debug what happens, so really the standard is to just reformat and install everything from scratch. How IT departments live with Windows I'll never know.

The difference here is that I don't need a mechanic at all to get what I need from Windows because Windows is not missing many very basic features. Five years ago, if we wanted file creation timestamps in Linux, we'd have to use an alpha or beta filesystem and hire a "mechanic" to fix or even install it. That's why everybody is using Windows and that's why you hear that argument a lot.

Furthermore, if you're not using Microsoft tools to develop for Windows then you're using the wrong tools. If I go try and use Visual Studio on Linux - it won't work. Go figure.

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