Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : esc
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Nov 02 2022 09:12:09

  Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
  By: esc to Nightfox on Tue Nov 01 2022 09:49 pm

 es> I prefer doing my dev work in a linux environment and while I appreciate
 es> WSL (and now WSL2), it was always at the end of the day just a linux VM
 es> eating up resources. And it was temperamental. More than once, my WSL
 es> install needed to get blown away and restarted from scratch. 

I've found I can get used to either environment.  For my home PC, I've mainly used Windows (and I had used DOS in the early 90s), but there was a job I had years ago where the office PCs all ran Linux, so I got used to that.  Some of my dev work (at my job, at least) involves .NET work sometimes, and I feel like Visual Studio is one of the best tools for that, so I've tendeed to use Windows at work and set up other systems as needed (I've done a little bit of iOS work, so I have a Mac Mini on my desk at the office in addition to my Windows laptop).

 es> In linux, this is all just native. Honestly the sole thing I miss from
 es> Windows is better native game support, but with this laptop's intel GPU
 es> I'm not missing much. 

Yeah, I think the native gaming support would be something I'd miss in Windows. I've thought of possibly switching to Linux at some point (and I currently have my main desktop PC set up to dual-boot between Windows and Linux Mint).

Nightfox
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