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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by romanovcode on Saturday May 12, 2018 @10:09AM (#17054134)
I use MacBook at work and Windows at home.

> Unix Shell

Cmder[0] is what I use, it supports all commands that I use on my work MacBook. If I need something Linux-specific like imagemagick, I just use WSL[1]. Some say it's slow but it runs fine. Maybe it's the fact that my PC is like 10x more powerful than my MacBook Pro because it's standard desktop computer with water cooling.

Bottom line, as someone who is using both every day - Windows is fine, it's not 2010 anymore.

[0] http://cmder.net/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux

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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by bengale on Saturday May 12, 2018 @10:52AM (#17054300)
In my experience it's fine if you're using the stock terminal app on macOS and then go back to windows, but if you use anything like iTerm then cmder will drive you mad.
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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by hungerstrike on Saturday May 12, 2018 @12:35PM (#17054796)
Yeah but the rest of the Mac will drive me crazy so it’s a good trade off IMO.

If I had to use a Mac all day I would miss all of the simplicity of using Windows for things like browsing files, managing application windows, having buttons with actual labels, etc. I would miss being able to operate the entire OS with just the keyboard, which is impossible on a Mac.

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