Yeah, I do all my development in WSL2 (Ubuntu) at work every day. I use VSCode on the Windows 11 host. It’s great!
Would I prefer to use Linux natively? Sure, but I also have to support some Windows-only legacy code and a D365 environment or two, so Windows makes sense.
I work at a place that uses Azure to run everything (not my choice…).
Everything we have runs on Linux containers, Linux Azure functions, and a VM that runs Ubuntu.
You can run Windows on Azure but you certainly don’t have to.
Debian’s website….
I do a lot of .NET development at work (back end web APIs). It’s all done in Linux via WSL2. All my code runs in Linux containers on Azure.
I’m using 1080p at 144hz. It’s great!
C seems like an awfully painful way to write the CRUD apps most of us spend our time on.
And any performance gains would be invisible in most situations where network I/O is the biggest bottleneck (almost) regardless of the language used.
Whether you use Windows or Linux, the Windows key is the foundation of many useful keyboard shortcuts. You know, hold it down plus some other key.
Whatever your preferred OS, look them up! You may find a few you would like to start using.
But yeah, on my work computer which is a Windows machine, I often use it to open the start menu and start typing the name of the app I want to launch. It’s faster than clicking on an icon somewhere if your hands are already on the keyboard.
There are teams where I work that are basically using Excel as a database and SharePoint as S3 in automated processes… But at least no one is going to DIE when those things fall over!
The product may have been useless, but they had some awesome art for their advertisement!
Personally, I have also had great experiences with the HP line of business laptops - Probooks and Elitebook.
Allow me to reveal my age by saying… No, duh!!!
The only possible way Microsoft can be this bad at naming things is if they are actively doing it on purpose.
That’s just what I was going to say - that will either be Arch or Debian…
2K of RAM? Time to port over some Atari 2600 games!
Came here to upvote for the exact same reasons.
I always run GE at this point.
This is what I came into the comments section for…
Yeah, I was going to cheat and go with “the entire Star Trek franchise”
And… I pretty much already speak entirely in Star Trek quotes.
Into the Vertical Blank
My personal experience has been that it’s games from the post-DOS era, especially PC games from the very late 90s and early 00s, that can be really tricky.
I’ve had better luck running games from that era from my GOG library via Lutris on Linux than Windows 10/11.
The ones that run in DOS Box are comparatively easy!