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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by adam_arthur on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:15AM (#31096412)
Controversial opinion: Windows is better for development now that WSL exists. Not a fan of using MacOS' proprietary flavor of it.

And windows computers will have 5nm processors soon enough with comparable performance to m1. Yes, the process/fab matters in perf, not just the design

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by emptysongglass on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:32AM (#31096671)
That is how I treat my new Framework with Windows: like a shitty DE to Linux. I run Arch (really Nix possessing the body of Arch since almost every package I use daily is a Nixpkg) on my personal laptop. I am enjoying seeing the other side of tooling. My Nix flake works without fuss inside WSL to instantiate my developer environment same as my Linux machine.

VS Code Remote makes working inside WSL basically native (I use Emacs on my Linux machine).

FancyZones courtesy of PowerToys makes for an acceptable tiling experience. I tried to use Komorebi but at least 0.1.8 has too many issues to recommend at this point.

Kind of excited to dive into PowerShell in a Month of Lunches next.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by bsnnkv on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:17AM (#31098159)
If you could open some GitHub issues (or even just drop me a bullet point list here) of the issues you're facing with komorebi it would be appreciated!
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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by emptysongglass on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @12:08PM (#31099013)
Hey thanks for the attention, I think the project is awesome and when it works I feel right at home.

Two big issues I encountered today running 0.1.8 installed with Scoop on Windows 11 Education N:

1. The empty space around apps gets bigger as you move them to new workspaces not primary (this is with Komorebi's workspaces, not Windows' Virtual Desktops which you have indicated have poorly documented APIs). It seems to be this issue [1] but that issue was closed as fixed

2. Sometimes apps left empty spaces when they were minimized. That might have been VS Code or Spotify (or Slack?). Spotify when visible didn't resize appropriately.

All my user-installed apps if that is helpful:

- KeyPirinha

- Mochi

- PowerToys

- Slack

- Telegram Desktop

- TickTick

- Ubuntu on Windows

- VS Code

- Thunderbird

- Ditto

- Everything

- 1Password

[1] https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi/issues/15

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by horsawlarway on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:31AM (#31096655)
Eh - not even that controversial in my opinion. The people still bitching about windows are the ones who haven't used it in 10+ years and have no idea how usable WSL is.

linux -> windows -> mac.

Mac is by far the least pleasant OS to use. Some of the hardware is ok (although avoid the 16inch intel line like your life depends on it) but overall I don't want a walled garden with happy paths.

I want a general purpose computer, and mac ain't that.

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