Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
My Mac-loving co-workers often ask me "why do you use a Windows laptop instead of a Macbook?" For me, I found that, much like Diane:
macos has been one of the worst experiences I could meet, and it still continues to drive me crazy every day.
More: the last time I had to carry an Apple laptop, it was both more fragile than my HP and Dell laptops and, when it broke, was a lot more of a righteous pain in the ass to get serviced. Seriously: when I'm spending that kind of money for a computer and, especially, a service-contract, your repair-monkey ought to be coming to me, not forcing me to come to some mall to talk to a "genius".
A few years ago, I found Windows to be pretty awful to work with, especially regarding accessibility and configuration
On the plus side, things like Cygwin/X was good for making Windows an easy way to interact with remote UNIX and Linux hosts. And, if I wasn't having to do any low-level tasks in my code, I could even do shit locally/offline, and it would work when I pushed it to my development-targets.
but windows 10 somehow managed to get seriously better, and I now use it daily to work with the same comfort level as linux.
The Metro interface is still godawful, but a bit less aggressively so than it was in Windows 8. So, there's that. But, yeah, the other, less Windowsy bits make it require a lot less in the way of "taming" just to get work done (and, unlike OSX, you can tame it).
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My Mac-loving co-workers often ask me "why do you use a Windows laptop instead of a Macbook?" For me, I found that, much like Diane:
More: the last time I had to carry an Apple laptop, it was both more fragile than my HP and Dell laptops and, when it broke, was a lot more of a righteous pain in the ass to get serviced. Seriously: when I'm spending that kind of money for a computer and, especially, a service-contract, your repair-monkey ought to be coming to me, not forcing me to come to some mall to talk to a "genius".
On the plus side, things like Cygwin/X was good for making Windows an easy way to interact with remote UNIX and Linux hosts. And, if I wasn't having to do any low-level tasks in my code, I could even do shit locally/offline, and it would work when I pushed it to my development-targets.
The Metro interface is still godawful, but a bit less aggressively so than it was in Windows 8. So, there's that. But, yeah, the other, less Windowsy bits make it require a lot less in the way of "taming" just to get work done (and, unlike OSX, you can tame it).