Legacy software on Windows (or current niche software) can be awful on Windows. Professors in our department try to run Maple, the taskbar icons are tiny, the text is huge, and all the layout just breaks.

"It's magic, I don't have to explain anything."

I've heard this message can be caused by running out of disk space during an install, in which case nothing really happened except it wastes your time.

FATAL ERR: 'b' not found.

@kwilliams The garbage collection process hasn't finished yet.

I've been using bash on Windows for years now. I still think MinGW, Cygwin, and/or Git Bash provide a much more straightforward environment than Windows' bash.

REM Hey wait, CMD is a real scripting language I swear!

Can confirm.

For the really serious work my rings come off too.

Mostly host websites, as well as "off site" backups of my current university projects.

(off site since its at my parents - the ISP here at college doesn't take well to hosting stuff on this connection)

@jirehstudios You forgot this small detail:
3a: ... ?
3b: Profit!

Just ignore those sorts of hype-riders. Unless there are security concerns or something, you can keep using the framework of your choice for as long as it continues to work.

I used to do that all the time, but now git bash on Windows has started complaining when I use question marks in my commits. I guess it wants me to be more assertive in my statements?

Arch is pretty awesome. I like the feeling of knowing that everything behaves just how I want it to, and not any different.

I installed Archlinux on my dev box today. I've used Arch for years, thought it couldn't take more than a half hour ... Four hours later, I've reinstalled three times since then, and it finally boots.

Bootloaders will be the end of me I swear.

Running hijackthis nightly and diffing the log file would be better than vanilla Windows protection. (admittedly sarcastic, but only just slightly)

@flag0 && @adamluzsi - Have you guys tried the "hardcore mode" plugin for Atom? Perhaps I'm entertained easily, but I just love seeing all the text shake when I delete stuff.

I've fallen in love with Atom + terminal. Try the "hardcore mode" plugin. It makes me smile no matter how hard the day.

You can pry my bash scripts from my cold dead hands.
(truthfully, I just like adding "&& sl" to the end so when the job is done I get to see a cheerful train animation)

Everyone knows you should add your fake delay on the front end so that enterprising redditors can write a user script to make it normal again.

@flag0 I think there's an "I believe in fairies" pun in there somewhere, but I'm too tired to come up with it.

@johnfoobar HTML is a "markup language" as opposed to a "programming language". It's not turing complete since it has no form of logic or execution. That's why normally it's not associated with coding or real programming.
I'm not saying it's not worth learning, but that it's inherently not programming.

I agree that Windows 10 is a good successor to Windows 7, with two caveats:
1) The volume of telemetry it sends back to Microsoft is concerning.
2) It likes to decide it's updating and then hide the notification that lets you reschedule. I have had it decide to restart in the middle of a movie night with my wife, and that's just frustrating.

Oh good, I'm not the only one who says this daily.

My (interim) boss has told us that if people call and don't know the error we can hang up because we don't know the problem.

@mcraz Pics please?

I think the "position: absolute;" with no top, left, bottom, or right values makes me cringe even more though.

Might be explaining VMs badly. After moving all our infrastructure to a few VM hypervisors we've been enjoying it a lot. Hardware out of warranty? We can have all the VMs moved to its replacement in less than a day.

I had to use Fedora for my work (all our research machines use Fedora, and we package custom builds for them routinely) - it's different from Arch in just enough confusing ways to trip me up.