Predominantly a Microsoft Stack Dev, used Windows for the last 14 years.

Switched to linux mint for the last couple of weeks. Trust me its a breath of fresh air. Fast and smooth. True to its promises, minds its business.

Windows is nothing but a cranky, annoying, slow talking bitch!

Yay! We have a new convert!

Only excel people should be using Windows, no disrespect to them. I don't get why a dev would choose to set themselves back several years by using a Windows PC, unless ofcourse it is company policy.

Agree. I remember when I moved from Windows to Xubuntu, the first Linux distro I used, when I was so nervous that it takes me longer to decide whether I should install it to my computer or not than the time I install it. Now I have used Linux for probably a year and still enjoy using it.

@AjDevNull I couldn't survive without windows and visual studio, I prefer gui over cli for everything as possible... Oh now you're going to tell me that I'm not a real dev, it's ok I don't care

Windows is for gaming only. Long live unix! 💪

Linux peasants are so cringe

@AjDevNull isn't there a thing called OnlyOffice?

It literally looks like Microsoft Office

Windows is way too slow 🦥

@b1tnuk3d I hope you mean *nix

The statement, that Gaming is for Windows is nothing more than a myth. It is no longer true though, thanks to a lot of development in the Linux community. Steam for example uses Proton for all non native Games. But the percentage of native games has risen in general on that platform.

I can play every Game on Steam i actually care about, except Destiny 2, because the devs have banned players in the past on linux (probably because of anti cheat), but that same game runs flawless on Stadia (so they obviously found a fix for that). That's just insulting.

@h3rp1d3v you complain about windows being slow... And than you're a JS dev 😂😂😂

@dontbeevil Yeah the learning curve is huge. Especially if you don't have time to set up something trivial. The CLI does provide something that is worth it though. The automation.

@HitWRight it's not so huge, I just find the use of the CLI it not fast liKe the GUI and more error prone for daily manual tasks...for the automation I have the ci/cd pipelines set without issues.

It's funny i have collegues that praise the CLI so much, and to do a git merge (including solve conflicts) are always dlower than me... No big deal for me, it's just funny because they say it's faster

@dontbeevil there is more to automation than deployment and integration.
- Starting your day with all the important information.
- Having the ability to quickly auto-format code not only in your IDE.
- Capturing necessary information into a personal planner.
- Auto-uploading files to personal server for sharing purposes.
- Automating your updates.
The list goes on and on.
But the beauty is not that it can't have a GUI, but that you can create your own workflow tailored to your own personal preferences.
You can even have a GUI for yourself if you want a style that isn't a mix and match of hundred different styles.

Considering git merges, the GUI is faster than typing it out, because it's a very user driven task (somewhat like graphical design, 3d modelling...), but having git as a CLI allowed those GUI to emerge. Also it allows magit which just changed how I look at git.

@HitWRight of course you're talking about specific cases and make sense, I'm just comparing the things that i can easily and faster do in a GUI, but other devs prefer to feel cool and do it in a CLI, just a stupi example: write "git push" that you can always misspell