That’s not all! It’s also less rewarding!

Yep. There’s lots it can do, but more I wouldn’t trust it with. Useful for certain tasks.

Awesome, thanks for sharing your experiences!

What? No they aren’t hard to move. They’re usually just one file. Copy to your new machine and done.

I did my first ever Linux install on a new build last year. I chose Mint, and the process was very smooth with only a few minor bumps getting up to date drivers for my newish AMD GPU. Since then I’ve grown increasingly annoyed by how limited GNOME applications are in general while also gaining increasing respect for the amount of functionality packed into KDE applications. So I’ve been shopping around for a KDE distribution. Fedora and openSUSE keep coming up, and I think I’ll be trying openSUSE soon. So I guess I’ll be skipping from the bottom left all the way to the top right.

I have no idea what kind of life experience you have, but take my word for it as a highly experienced software engineer when I say that MacBooks are a popular choice with professionals in my field and adjacent fields as well because of their high-quality construction, long-lasting battery life, and at its core a POSIX-compatible OS. Yes, the file manager is shitty and all the Apple walled-garden Store nonsense is all Tinker Toy hot garbage, but just install Homebrew and you’ve got yourself a decent package manager and you’re off to the races. Not all “Apple users” are the braindead consumerist zombies you imagine.

“Apple users” such as the IT professionals who live in their POSIX-compatible shell sessions on compact, powerful hardware that lasts all day on battery? OK, buddy.

Mac OS requires more power than Windows? Nah, this meme is clownin’

My ranking of package managers on Windows:

1. Chocolatey: the oldest and has the most packages. Packages are AV scanned. Enterprisey.
2. Scoop: Somewhat fewer packages, but easier to package for. More technical focus. FOSSy.
3. Winget: fewest packages, and Microsoft literally stole it from its creator. I’m not aware of any reason to use winget over choco or scoop.

Facts. It’s also the worst package manager on Windows anyway.

DBeaver is available for Mac and Linux too. But DataGrip is pretty sweet, so good one.

Re: length of commands, PS commands are longer, but they also have tab completion so realistically you never type the whole thing, only enough to be unambiguous and press tab. I’ll grant it’s still longer than the equivalent bash, but not by as much as it appears.

This lines up with my own takes on Windows versions. I think 8 was better than people give it credit for. I never minded the UI personally, and it was fast and responsive.

SHORT!

🎼 My boys are otherwise engaged, so I’m gonna have to bring it all myself now 🎵

Same. I recently spent a few hours failing to either build gamescope from source or get the flatpak versions of gamescope and steam working together. Others got it working a few months ago, but their steps didn’t work for me and I just decided I’d rather spend my time playing without HDR than keep trying at it. Wouldn’t have been so hard on a disto better supported by gamescope.

There definitely is, I’m posting from there

8 really doesn’t deserve the hate it gets. It was far better than 10 ever was.

Are you saying that you want to separate your two logical sections by having different levels of indentation and that’s what makes Python go crazy?

Since it’s a superset of JSON, couldn’t you just use the JSON notation if you hate the semantic whitespace?