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Re:“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsof... by phist_mcgee on Friday July 23, 2021 @08:27PM (#27937315)
Getting a functional semi-ok, posix sorta vaguely compliant terminal is not a fun or easy task in windows. The web runs linux, and unfortunately, windows doesn't really want to do linux (WSL is a tiny concession)
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Re:“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsof... by mickael-kerjean on Friday July 23, 2021 @09:17PM (#27937577)
WSL doesn't cut it, it's at best frustrating with all sort of weird problems. Just yesterday, as I was forced to use Windows at work, I couldn't get emacs to save a file because of some weird locking issue when trying to compile some react application that would work fine on linux
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Re:“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsof... by Case81 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @08:09AM (#27948579)
I don’t get it though. WSL2 has been perfect for me this far. I can’t think of something I need Linux for anymore.
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