![]() ![]() But without open source and standards, what will be left to sustain it all if/when their app/hardware market sours? ![]() Maybe Microsoft is getting stronger, or Apple is losing touch with open source stuff trying to push their app / boutique hardware business model. Generally speaking, it's more DIY / Hacker friendly. You can build your own Desktop, and pick good quality components that last, that aren't soldered together wastefully. Unlike Apple where you're stuck with an expensive metal wedge, a keyboard you may not (or may!) like, that at least for me gets miserably slow after 3 years, in Windows-land you can pick Dell, Lenovo, HP, so on. The best part of Windows though is hardware choice. ![]() macOS is no longer clearly superior the consumer OS space. Steam, with all the games, at full speed. Windows 10: Snapping, HiDPI, sound management, drivers just work, lots of apps in windows store, if not you have everything in chocolatey anyway. This editor works across platforms on MacOS as well. ![]() VSCode: They ship a new feature release every month I guess? I was happy with it 1 year or two ago, but now they also have WSL 2 integration. This thing, which has support for Unity and Unreal, and is MIT licensed And I can start to dabble with learning C# / Visual Studio. I recently wiped debian off my Thinkpad because there's no point, I get everything I need from WSL 2. WSL 2 alleviates file system issues that plagued WSL. There are some remaining terminal corruption with tmux + vim sessions, but soon enough it'll be replacing hyper/conemu for me. Dare I say, nearing rxvt-unicode/kitty speed. Windows Terminal is pretty solid, and fast. Microsoft is just on a roll when it comes to open source. ![]()
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