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Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 13 points 3 years ago (6 children)

The situation has never been better for comfortably abandoning Windows. Come to Linux, we have penguins

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    tbh, windows user since the 90s, tried *nix desktops since the early 00s every few years. Used to have a thing where I would force myself to use it for 6 months and it would fail again and again.

    In the last year, ive been using ubuntu (which i know isint the best desktop to use even) as a dev system on some of my work. Unlike in the past I am no longer finding an unreasonable delta between the user expectations in linux vs windows systems. I need to drop to a cli for both with ~ the same propensity once I do anything advanced. Not having a registry is a blessing I never thought I would be able to have in a rich visual system.

    Long time .NET / Azure dev - moving to linux. After all, what do you think remote windows will run under-the-covers?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    That's a pretty similar story to mine. Used Linux pretty exclusively over a decade ago, then switched back for my gaming PC. Now that I'm back on Linux though, I don't see any reason to use windows on anything but my company PC, Linux is just better IMO now.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Azure Linux with a strong Wine hahahahaha

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    pretty much, though my understanding is they ended up making thier own "wine" that leverages hyper-v. Seems like they are still banking on thier own hypervisor. Can't say I blame them. no way MS hands thier ops to VMWare.

    EDIT: Honestly, I would expect NT4/Server2000 based windows to be sunset within a decade in place of a linux kernel version that has a window manager developed in microsoft's signature style. A large number of newer UWP apps will port relatively easily if already written on .NET core and microsoft has indicated they are starting to think more like apple when it comes to some levels of compatibility.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    As another dev here, I have barely used a PC/laptop outside of work in years. I got a gaming PC like 2 years back and don't use it much. But every time I get the hankering for some personal dev project and have to mess with the registry I cry inside. I really need to just ditch it for Linux entirely. I'm so much more comfortable on Linux. You might just convince me to bite the bullet and remove it entirely since 90% of my gaming is on steamdeck anyway.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Since WSL2 and terminal preview I have spent more time doing "nix things" than windows things anyway, I even do a lot of windows file management through ubuntu since the Linux tools are more expressive.

    Much of my day is web browser, cli and VSCode. The desktops are capable, at this point its more about getting used to a different set of keyboard shortcuts, my next build out will be a linux system for sure.

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