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• dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Same.

  • Mac - Fast, user friendly, and UNIX based.
  • Windows - Fast (I have a beast), bloated, stupid command prompt (“Add-Migration”, capital letters really.), wants to spy on me.
  • Linux - Fast, a lot of work to get everything working as you would on Windows or Mac and I’m past those days, I just want to turn the thing on and play Factorio or Minecraft, not figure out if my 4080 will run on it etc.

  it’s almost like people make choices to suit their needs and there isn’t a single solution for everybody.

  I wonder what the industry standard is for developers? Genuinely. I’ve heard it’s Max, but my company is all in on Microsoft, not really heard of companies developing on Linux. Which isn’t to say Linux doesn’t have its place, but I’m aware this place is insanely biased towards Linux.

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  • OhYeah@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Every place I’ve been at had developers using windows machines and then ssh into a linux environment

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Makes sense for sysadmin or something but little sense for developers and engineers writing code to build corporate applications.

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      • Strykker@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well enterprise software is either going to run on windows or Linux servers, so sounds like windows and Linux make good dev workstations.

        My current work gives devs macs but we build everything for Linux so it’s a bit of a nuisance. And Apple moving to arm made running vms basically impossible for a while, it’s a bit better now.

        Still a giant pain in the butt to have your dev environment not match the build environment architecture.

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      • OhYeah@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As a developer writing code who used windows to ssh to linux servers I would disagree. But of course it depends on the company and the nature of the work, just offering my experience

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  • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just want to turn the thing on and play Factorio or Minecraft, not figure out if my 4080 will run on it etc.

    Funny that you chose two games that run natively on Linux.

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Minecraft runs great, I dont know about factorio.

      but I know some native versions suck absolute ass and force you to use the windows version via proton regardless. ETS/ATS and Cities Skylines 1 being my immediate personal examples.

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  • kalleboo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wonder what the industry standard is for developers?

    The Stack Overflow developer survey (which has it’s bias towards people who use Stack Overflow)… says 47% use Windows, 32% use Mac, and uh, Linux is split up by distro so it’s hard to make sense of the numbers but Ubuntu alone is at 27%.

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks for this.

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  • qqq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I almost never use Windows, but aren’t commands and variables in PowerShell case insensitive?

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe it’s just the Package Manager Console inside Visual Studio Professional as “add-migration” or “update-database” don’t work unless capitalised.

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  • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My current Linux machine needed exactly zero config post install, and even stuff like the fingerprint reader is working, I’m using it instead of passwords in a terminal.

    I can also play games pretty well, it’s usually smoother and less buggy than on Windows.

    I feel Linux is not a compromise for me anymore, Windows is fast becoming one though.

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What distro would you recommend, I’m prepared to try over the weekend.

      How does it work with GPU drivers for a GeForce RTX 4080?

      Anything else I need to be aware of

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      • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m running Fedora KDE on a Framework laptop and a custom built machine, but they are all AMD so IDK about Nvidia cards.

        As I’ve heard Nvidia nowadays releases Linux drivers.

        TBH I haven’t had any problems installing and using Linux for years now, I think just go for it and see what happens.

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