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Re:KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not yo... by blyry on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @09:30AM (#44169902)
Plasma on Ubuntu is the what windows 7 could've been. It's been my daily for a couple years now, with jetbrains tooling and vscode. The only reason I boot back into windows is if I have to work on a .net framework app with visual studio. And Ubuntu is even explicitly supported by dell and Lenovo? It's a no brainer tbh. I'm lucky that my corporate IT is cool with it: I showed them how it supports drive encryption, can join our domain and run our patching software to meet all their 'policy'
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Re:KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not yo... by TYPE_FASTER on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @09:42AM (#44170047)
I've been pleasantly surprised at how far I can go using Rider to do .NET development on a Mac. I was able to do pretty much everything, including running SQL Server in a container.
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Re:KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not yo... by blyry on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @09:52AM (#44170172)
Yeah dude! Did you see linqpad is supported on osx now? I used a Mac for a couple years, last gen Intel, when I was doing mostly node work, but I never really got used to it. One of my coworkers though has been doing full-time .net on a Mac with jetbrains for probably about 2 years now and he said he's just as productive as before at this point.
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Re:KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not yo... by TYPE_FASTER on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @10:56AM (#44181369)
I hadn't used LINQPad before, thanks for sharing. Going to try it out.
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