I never thought I’d be saying this, but I find the Windows window manager the best out of the box, and as a bonus I get to do my unreal/vr dev side projects without booting into another OS.
But yeah, I agree, Windows 10 has a great UX. I switched to windows because of the WSL, and I end up using it less and less over time: ssh, ansible, and avoiding cross-compiling toolchains when building releases, that's about it.
But oh well, downvote away if that makes you angry :-))
For Rust/Go/Python/Javascript development, I've never had to rely on any workaround.
No need to be condescending...
Yes as a matter of fact, I have. Never ran into any problem with "cargo" nor "rustup".
> have you tried setting up ENV variables in Windows? is a journey of clicks into config windows and options, and this is just an example.
Git bash still have a .bashrc, I set my environment variables here just like I did on Linux. For production I use Docker.
> I would rather be in Unix
good for you
> than just being able to play Fornite
No need to be condescending... I'm not even playing on my WORK computer...
> and having to "filter my outgoing traffic"
I hope you still do it with your Linux OS because with the amount of "curl | sudo bash" there is out there, I would not trust it either.
Where does it come from that only Windows is subject to telemetry/monitoring? Whenever you "sudo apt install" something you trust someone else. If you're paranoid enough to not trust Windows, why would you trust any third-party software even on Linux?
> it seems too much work. I just want something that "works".
My workflow works for me, I never tried to convince you like you try to convince me. Leave me be.
Its quite easy.
> is a journey of clicks into config windows and option
or in CMD.exe (e.g., via a .bat file) a simple call to setx.
or in Powershell or Windows Powershell, [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable.
This assumed you want to durably set variables associated with the machine or user; transitory settings can be done via set (CMD.exe) or $env:path (either powershell line).