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Nelek wrote: I sitll remember some years ago in burning a CD with Nero in Windows XP around 15 to 20 minutes and that's going fast.
Linux burned the same CD in less than 2.5 minutes
Well. To be fair, let's compare apples with apples; burning a CD isn't exactly a task that will overwhelm an OS, even during the XP days. Undoubtedly there's a burn rate selection that was not chosen. Or the burner itself, hooked up to XP, didn't support the higher speed - I remember the introduction of faster drives was a very gradual thing.
OTOH, I've burned CDs at (say) 52x. No buffer underrun, no problem reported whatsoever, only for me to realize weeks/months later the disc was rather unreliable. I stick with burning at 4x, no matter what the OS. And better yet, these days I burn as few discs as I can...
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: nobody's forcing peeps to give them all their data
This is big part of why I only have Win11 on one VM or two. Otherwise I'd probably have migrated to it within a few days of its original release.
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On my Win11 box (23H2) I bypassed the account creation, but... now they're literally nagging me to create one with every thing I do in it. You change a setting... nag. You use the start menu... nag. It doesn't take a genius to figure out if they care that much, then there's a reason.
Jeremy Falcon
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Real men use QNX... on a Raspberry Pi... underwater.
Jeremy Falcon
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I haven't tried it underwater yet, but Linux does run nicely on the Pi.
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No. Why? In one word (or maybe two) - VisualStudio. There is nothing in Linux world that comes close to it; not by a mile; not by many miles. I've tried over the years a few times and all the substitutes were so poor, specially on the debugging side, that I was relieved when I got back to Windows.
Another gripe I have with Linux world, this time as a user, not a developer, is the endless list of options where there isn't one that is obviously better. You could use GNOME or KDE or Xface or Cinnamon or (any other of 30+ desktop environments out there). Makes you want to go back to the command line but there are tens of distros, each one with it's own idiosyncrasies and slight incompatibilities.
All that makes me use Linux only for small gizmos like the many RPis and BeagleBones I use for work and around the house. General rule is: find a working configuration and don't touch it unless you're forced to.
Mircea
modified 9-Aug-24 18:29pm.
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: ou could use GNOME or KDE or Xface or Cinnamon or (any other of 30+ desktop environments out there).
I love Linux, but IMO you hit the nail on the head. With so many peeps contributing to it, you got endless options. Which, you'd think would be a good thing. But, mix that in with the immature flame wars about "omg, dis da best n00b" kinda fun and well, it's annoying when you just want crap to work and go on about life.
There are some beginner friendly distros that don't go through that. If you find one you like and a Desktop Experience (DE) you like, then screw what the kiddies think. 
Side note, JetBrains makes cross platform IDEs... even one for .NET (it's not free tho). And there's VS Code. But, you totally have a good point that if you do C#, may as well install the grand daddy of IDEs for it.
Jeremy Falcon
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: VisualStudio. There is nothing in Linux world that comes close to it
Have you never used emacs? 
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that's still around? I may have to spin up a Unix VM to see how it plays.
Emacs was wonderful, because it provided syntax coloring for code. Is it VS? No, and that may or may not be a good thing.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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My favourite editor when I was working on AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows, all those years ago.
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You're kidding right! Emacs has a steep learning curve and most users can't handle it.
I come from Bell Labs Unix where I used both emacs and vi a lot. Windows in my opinion and experience lacks the power of the command line that is available in nix, however powershell comes close but relies too much on .net.
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I guess you missed the joke emoji. 
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: No. Why? In one word (or maybe two) - VisualStudio. There is nothing in Linux world that comes close to it; not by a mile; not by many miles. I've tried over the years a few times and all the substitutes were so poor, specially on the debugging sid
Yep VStudio was an issue for me too, but with .NET Core (if you’re there) and Visual Studio Code you can debug all code.
So, as the world moves to .NET Core this will be even less of a thing.
I dev all greenfield on .NET Core / Linux / Visual Studio Code & it works great.
However, at work we are still on VStudio 2013 — but I remote to those windows boxes & do that work anyways. I also run VStudio in a window VM if I need to.
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> Mircea Neacsu wrote:
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> In one word (or maybe two) - VisualStudio.
Close but no cigar. Ditched that clunker the very second I found JetBrains Rider (but our relationship had already been toxic for a decade or so). Now I start Visual Studio only once or twice a year, to build/publish some legacy stuff - after having done all the development in Rider.
What keeps me firmly rooted on Windows boxen is LINQPad. There's nothing even remotely comparable in the Linux world, and there probably won't be since JPad unfortunately seems to have died in its infancy.
My LINQPad script tree currently comprises 3464 files in 709 directories; it is basically a knowledge dump where each piece of knowledge is packaged as a LINQPad script, opened with a single click and then executed with a single keystroke. This goes from how to call a certain API (one line, or a handful) up to POC implementations with many hundreds of lines and maybe dozens of includes and referenced assemblies or NuGet packages. Basically, I don't start coding tricky stuff in a C# project until I have it working perfectly in LINQPad. Also, I often write LINQPad scripts (read 'C# programs') where I formerly would have done battle with batch files or Power$hell scripts, because it is so much more convenient and so much more powerful. Plus, I get to use a language with palatable/sane syntax (C#), as opposed to all the shell languages that I've ever seen.
Also, having programmed the Windows API since Windows 2.18 and the Win32 API since NT 3.51 I tend take certain amenities - e.g. threads, reliable file locking, interprocess synchronisation primitives, clipboard - for granted. That's why my mind really boggles when I find that Linux does not have interprocess mutexes, for example, and that people recommend farting around with disk files instead. That's not really a desktop/UI issue but it keeps me away from Linux and Mac for everyday work, because I cannot make them jump like a can even the newest, sh*ttiest iteration of Windows yet. And there's always the WSL if need arises ...
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: Makes you want to go back to the command line
Bourne? Bash? ksh? zsh?
(your point is well made) 
Mircea Neacsu wrote: but there are tens of distros
"Tens"? If only. DistroWatch maintains a top 100 list, and there's many more.
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I guess it comes down to what kind of computer work you do. I was a firmware engineer for my whole career and hardly ever used VS. I've actually never used C#.
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sasadler wrote: I've actually never used C#.
Me neither. I've always used C++ 
Mircea
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I'm not a professional developer, and I don't know if the Visual Studio version is a poor second cousin for support, but this site suggests it is available for Linux.
Download Visual Studio Tools - Install Free for Windows, Mac, Linux[^]
Personally though, every time I've cut any code, I've been super happy with the tools that come with Linux - though I get a new user might take a little while to discover them all. I guess it depends on what you do.
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After that chat a while back about Linux, I decided to install Debian/Gnome again on my laptop. My desktop is still Windows 11, but I'm on my laptop posting this from Debian.
raddevus wrote: Why? Or Why not?
Linux has a high learning curve. Distros like Ubuntu help with that. IMO that's the only reason why not to. The desktop experiences have come a long way.
Now, the reason why... IMO if Microsoft and big tech didn't start acting greedy and foolish there wouldn't be a reason. But, to trust MS with your data now is being a bit naive. That's the biggest reason. Oh, and Windows Update is more a virus than anything else. 
raddevus wrote: I couldn’t even run everything I wanted to run (a couple of games and Atmel Studio (embedded IDE which is a variant of VStudio, only runs on windows)
The only things I miss are Photoshop and a few games. Outside of that there's no difference, minus getting used to stuff like a different audio player, etc.
And yeah there's Wine, but only older versions of Photoshop work with it. I may just bite the bullet and install a VM, but it's my laptop, so maybe not.
raddevus wrote: I also do Android programming and Android Studio runs better on Linux.
IMO C programming is better on Linux too.
My only beef with the OS are the uppety zealots that are immature and can't give straight answers to questions you ask online. Like "how dare you use a distro I don't like, etc." Guess that happens on Windows too, but you get the idea.
Jeremy Falcon
modified 9-Aug-24 19:07pm.
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Quote: ... the uppety zealots that are immature and can't give straight answers to questions you ask online. Like "how dare you use a distro I don't like, etc."
Isn't that the truth. The bane of my Linux existence - especially early on.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Oh, and Windows Update is more a virus than anything else
Once you experience the smooth updates of Linux you will be astonished by the terrible-ness of windows updates. But, that is the trick for windows users — they have no idea that updates could be better, I guess. MS contributes to the cloud of curses that floats over the world (due to their terrible updates).
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raddevus wrote: Once you experience the smooth updates of Linux
Until it's not.
I've had a few VMs in the past, and a laptop still to this day, that won't complete the update I've launched from a command prompt, because the background task that drives the GUI version of the updater had already been initiated, and now complains about a file being locked (I forget the name - I'm sure most Linux users have seen it - it's always the same file, in the same folder). If I manually delete the file and / or its container folder and retry, too late, it's already been re-created and locked again. And now both the GUI version and command prompt get stuck because of that locked file that keeps getting recreated as quickly as you can delete it.
Or some distro that won't update itself because the ISO you've installed from is now too old, and the only way to get it working again is to manually change whatever repo it's fetching its updates from. And that process is never the same even for two different distros, and your googling results in instructions that don't apply to yours...
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Interesting, haven't experienced that (and hope I never do). 
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Likewise. I have had one NVIDIA update not install properly in eight years (and in fairness, installing Video drivers in Windows was not a great experience either). I've also had self inflicted pain where I've overridden dependencies and caused later issues, but not recently either.
I suspect that is pretty dependent on the distribution you use. I've used Debian, Mint and Ubuntu mainly for the past more than 8 years as a full time daily driver.
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