Switching to Linux, you're doing it wrong

Re:Switching to Linux, you're doing it wrong by aashworth on Friday April 29, 2011 @11:02AM (#2497592)

- I just can't tear myself away from Windows as my primary system until Wine becomes less of a pain to use. While Linux has alternatives for most of the software I use, the 10% it doesn't keeps me rooted to keeping Windows on my primary partition.

-With VMWare performance getting better and better with SSDs and multicore processors, I hardly notice a delay when I'm developing in a virtual machine.

-I hate dual-booting just so I can spend 10 minutes playing Angry Birds on my break. So I just stay in Windows.

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Re:Switching to Linux, you're doing it wrong by MatthewPhillips on Friday April 29, 2011 @11:15AM (#2497631)

So the opposite is not true? There isn't anything that Linux offers you that Windows does not? Are you a coder? Try installing Node.js under cygwin. Good luck. Same for most linux-oriented programming environments. Windows works fine for the more mature languages (PHP, Ruby, Python, Java) which have direct ports and in many cases a compiler for the CLR.

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Re:Switching to Linux, you're doing it wrong by ebiester on Friday April 29, 2011 @11:04AM (#2497599)

You already use VMs, why not just open up a VM when you want to play angry birds?

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