Cygwin run outguess3/6/2023 But it is actually quite annoying when I prefer the way Windows does it, and I'm constantly reminded that apparently macOS isn't made for people like me. Then I want to have those in the glorious and predictable LRU cache that is alt+tab on Windows. And some times I work with two IntelliJ windows and one Firefox window sort of kind of at the same time. I have multiple windows of IntelliJ open at the same time, and I might have an incognito window of Firefox open to test some login stuff, and I want to switch betwen those two windows. One of my main gripes with macOS is that Command+tab switches between apps and not Windows. And maximize means "fill the screen", not "whatever the developers of the app want". I really like that I can just hold the Windows key and press arrow up to maximize a window. Have you noticed that we're purely in the domain of taste now? Don't blame me! I said it in the intro. I'm not a huge fan of the window management in macOS But I like to not have to rely on one single company for my hardware. Have you seen the latest episodes from LinusTechTips about this? Do you want to rely on Apple and hope they make laptops with AMD CPUs in them? I mean maybe it will happen. I like to have a wide variety of hardrware available, and I read news about the latest offerings from AMD and Intel. And that it also has USB-A ports and a HDMI port.Īnd I have a gamer gene. And I like that it has a thunderbolt 3 port for connecting my dock so I can just attach one single cable when I arrive at work. I mean, I guess someone sees my Dell XPS 15 laptop and thinks "wow, poor guy, he doesn't have a touch bar" before they think anything else. The new 16" Macbook Pro is a step in the right direction.īut since 2015, Macbook Pro has been pretty much useless as far as I'm concerned. It's even open source - you can build it yourself! I don't like Apple hardware It's nice to be able to use ctrl+shift+c to copy, instead of having to do the weird right click insert enter stuff that I never quite got the hang of in the old built-in terminal in I've used it for more than two months now and haven't had a single issue, so it's as good as stable in my book. So now, I'm using the new official terminal from Microsoft, which is in early access and available for anyone to try. The option menus looks like someone used an AI to convert config files and option flags to a GUI, and it does require some setup. For ages, there's been cmdr, and it works great. There are some things, though, such as curl, that I have absolutely no idea how to do on Windows. I try to do most things directly on Windows, to get the hang of it. I just used apt to get the build-deps for imagemagick and built it myself with the necessary flags for HEIF support. That's a world of difference from cygwin.įor example, last week I needed imagemagick with the extensions for reading the Apple camera file format HEIF. And you can choose between a bunch of distros, so you have the Ubuntu apt-get repos right at your fingertips if you choose Ubuntu, for example. It's a proper Linux run-time, with no boot time, embedded right into Windows. I won't go into detail about how WSL works here, I'll save that for a separate blog post.īut suffice to say, WSL rocks. And I don't think I know anyone that uses Windows that didn't use to use Cygwin before WSL came along. Think of it as the business version of WINE, that lets you run Windows programs on Linux. It's a complete re-implementation of the Linux kernel system calls, against the NT kernel. WSL is short for Windows Subsystem for Linux. It'll happen.īut because of WSL, this is now a thing of the past. And you can sort of blame the JVM APIs that shelling out isn't made cross platform compatible. So my guess is that it simply never occurred to anyone to test it on Windows. Almost nobody combines Windows and ClojureScript, at least two years ago. For example, a couple of years ago, I tried to compile ClojureScript on Windows, and it failed because of the way it shelled out to call npm for installing npm module dependencies. It's getting pretty rare, but it does happen. So you're bound to run into problems on Windows. They're mostly used by people that use Linux or macOS. The software platforms I choose - Clojure, Kotlin, and other JVM languages - have one thing in common: What has changed? The big thing that is different now is WSL. Those that know me, laugh at the idea that I started that sentence with "maybe". Maybe that will happen again in the future. I have switched to Windows before, and ended up switching back. Personal preferences are both normal and OK. I have absolutely nothing against the use of macOS or Linux. I just wanted to get this one out of the way. This post is part of a series: Advent Calendar 2019
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