Debian in WSL is my single favorite thing about Windows work laptop. Real tools! 😃

I’m back on windows for work after a decade away, and all the reasons I left are still there. The tools are still lacking, the layout is non-sensical, prototyping requires expensive subscriptions, and it’s not designed to get work done.

*nixes and macOS, to a lesser extent, are much nicer. The *nixes are designed to get work done. I have my gripes, but good lord they’re small comparatively.

Agreed.

Vim/Neovim and Spacemacs (Emacs) are so much more addictive than NPP.

That’s cool if NPP is OP’s thing, but there are quite a few text editors which check those boxes in the *nix world.

JetBrains Rider is probably the best C# IDE for Linux, and MS ported .NET server stuff a while ago.

I’m not sure about C# GUI toolkits on Linux. WPF isn’t there, and I’m not sure how mature Maui is on Linux.

Dell Latitudes and Precisions support Linux pretty well.

Git repos of some helpful scripts and configs.

Music.

Profile backup.

They also just bought an Ad network, so can’t get ad revenue if they can’t track people.

Synergies™

Or $HOME/.var/log.

There is a .local folder these days.

Profile roaming hasn’t been solved aside from NFS mounts. I guess Syncthing might work.

Why would go have a virtual environment or dep tree like node_modules equivalent, it’s not interpreted or dynamically linked.

With modules, dependencies can be vendored.

Armed revolt it is. Pizza first though?🍕

65 to match Social Security.

Forgejo is working on federation. That is the big item.

Not really. He posts under his own name, so I recognized it from the forums.

He’ll have more time to spend on the Phoronix forums now. 🙂

I have to agree. I tried some of the JetBrains IDEs from Flathub, and I switched back to the regular JetBrains Toolbox versions.

Plus, being able to sandbox user space applications, which previously had free reign, is nice.

Sandboxing isn’t 100% there yet, but it’s come along way.

I did on arch.

Arch. There’s the problem. 😆

Fedora and Tumbleweed keep up with Arch while being easier to maintain. Fedora is a semi-rolling release, and Tumbleweed is rolling release. Both are much more stable than Arch is.

Arch is great for people who want to tinker with their desktop/laptop install. I do not, so I run Fedora.

It depends on the user.

Run Fedora or Tumbleweed. They will be continuously updated, and an install will last years.

It will always boot…

Your basis for comparison is Arch which is known to be highly unstable and a handful to maintain. 😆

For my work, I need different OSes and distros for testing. If someone needs a stable distro for something, a VM or container will work. There are ways around the needing a stable.

Also, containers aren’t a penalty.

It’s good for clean up, and I got used to it on Windows.

You can break the cycle. Just because some you suffered doesn’t mean others have to. 🙂

Everyone says they’re going to clean up their profiles, but no one does. 😆

Keep your dot files in a repo…

I have that because I run through so many test servers and temp installs.

Then there are Ansible playbooks to setup my systems.

They don’t have any devs to support it. The one dev who an idea about btrfs left for Oracle, from what I’ve read.

Btrfs is rather nice in the correct scenarios, and lack of btrfs is one reason I’m moving away from CentOS servers.

Just why? RHEL gets a new version every 5 years.

You answered your own question. Maintaining software will eat up lots of time. It’s fine when there is a team to maintain software for installs, but not really something a single person running a desktop/laptop probably wants to deal with.

The 5yr release cycle is a pain starting about year 3 even for people who get paid to deal with it. 😆

VMs and containers on top of something more up to date is the best of both. Up to date distro with features, and all the distros one could want!

In-place upgrades are very relevant. Who wants to destroy their setup and reinstall everything when a new OS is released?

There is leapp for EL in-place upgrades, but it’s new and rather rough, from my testing.

Flatpak has made software support better, but I’d still recommend something else without a concrete reason, like proprietary CFD software or something which only supports EL.

It can be done, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Containers and VMs running a stable distro on top of something like Fedora, Tumbleweed, or whatever else is my preferred setup.

Something like Fedora also has a more mature in-place upgrade ability than the EL distros have.