Similar story. Around the time I really started getting involved in front-end dev work I was stuck with Windows (this was at a Higher Education institution) and discovering that anything nodejs-related really sucked on Windows. So I landed up running Linux in Vagrant to get all the modern goodness I needed - at the time this was Grunt :D
Since then I gradually moved over to Linux; at work and at home. I kept my Core 2 Duo Sony Vaio laptop running for a good number of years past its best before date by making the switch and am now happy with Ubuntu Budgie remix on a relatively modest laptop. For anyone with more limited funds getting into dev work; Linux is a no-brainer.
you will be amazed to see how many options you get in Linux opposed to windows. I am also a nodejs dev and struggled quite a few times when working with the tools
How Windows managed to keep my PC at the same pace, no matter the year or specs on the newer PCs, the fact that a new PC with Windows 10 is just as fast as my old PC with Win95 to me is mind-boggling. With Linux everytime I upgrade my PC, Linux keep getting faster, looking better and I'm able to do more, is interesting to note how with each new PC I'm able to add another screen with 5 more workspaces, and even then faster than my las machine. Windows always seemed to leave me about 40% of available RAM no matter the year, no matter the specs of my new PC, I keep upgrading it, Windows keep eating more. Nowdays I only use Windows in others PCs, just Linux for me and today I'm using the same distro and almos the same SW than 10 years ago and they are newer, better looking and more powerful but consuming about the same as 10 years ago; my now old machine (a Thinkpad X230) feels like a beast running the latest and best that Linux has to offer. And when I upgrade my HW again I'm certain than the extra resources will be used by me, not my OS .
TBH I think the same is true in many fields of computing. My PC ten years ago was perfectly capable of rendering all the web content I accessed; but now mobile devices with equivalent (if not better) specs struggle with some websites. It used to be that you had to optimise your code as much as possible to ensure good performance; but now the priority seems to be churning stuff out quickly - adding lots of unnecessary bells and whistles (and plenty of tracking code) - in order to catch the current wave of popularity and make a fast buck.
Linux seems to be one of the exceptions; and I'm very grateful for that :)
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Similar story. Around the time I really started getting involved in front-end dev work I was stuck with Windows (this was at a Higher Education institution) and discovering that anything nodejs-related really sucked on Windows. So I landed up running Linux in Vagrant to get all the modern goodness I needed - at the time this was Grunt :D
Since then I gradually moved over to Linux; at work and at home. I kept my Core 2 Duo Sony Vaio laptop running for a good number of years past its best before date by making the switch and am now happy with Ubuntu Budgie remix on a relatively modest laptop. For anyone with more limited funds getting into dev work; Linux is a no-brainer.
you will be amazed to see how many options you get in Linux opposed to windows. I am also a nodejs dev and struggled quite a few times when working with the tools
How Windows managed to keep my PC at the same pace, no matter the year or specs on the newer PCs, the fact that a new PC with Windows 10 is just as fast as my old PC with Win95 to me is mind-boggling. With Linux everytime I upgrade my PC, Linux keep getting faster, looking better and I'm able to do more, is interesting to note how with each new PC I'm able to add another screen with 5 more workspaces, and even then faster than my las machine. Windows always seemed to leave me about 40% of available RAM no matter the year, no matter the specs of my new PC, I keep upgrading it, Windows keep eating more. Nowdays I only use Windows in others PCs, just Linux for me and today I'm using the same distro and almos the same SW than 10 years ago and they are newer, better looking and more powerful but consuming about the same as 10 years ago; my now old machine (a Thinkpad X230) feels like a beast running the latest and best that Linux has to offer. And when I upgrade my HW again I'm certain than the extra resources will be used by me, not my OS .
Yeah thats a bummer. It also keeps running some services like cortana which you don not need.
TBH I think the same is true in many fields of computing. My PC ten years ago was perfectly capable of rendering all the web content I accessed; but now mobile devices with equivalent (if not better) specs struggle with some websites. It used to be that you had to optimise your code as much as possible to ensure good performance; but now the priority seems to be churning stuff out quickly - adding lots of unnecessary bells and whistles (and plenty of tracking code) - in order to catch the current wave of popularity and make a fast buck.
Linux seems to be one of the exceptions; and I'm very grateful for that :)