My job gave me an expensive high-specced laptop with Windows on it. This is the first time I am stuck using Windows daily. It's W10. With Windows Defender and a bunch of windows, it starts to slowly become unusable. Today, it blue screened for me just fixing again (and again and again) the bluetooth headphones never gets automatically switched to when I turn them on. Forget about having Visual Studio open on it for an extended period of time.
Meanwhile, my 7-year old laptop with Fedora on it I type this is wonderfully snappy and stable. I started to get tempted to actually switch back to a Mac just to get some predictability and stability, but I have avoided macs for years. (And - never having to deal with constant line ending issues)
All I hear from other co-workers is how their perfectly specced laptops lag with Windows. It's freaking Stockholm Syndrome here!
oof I re-read this comment. I would only switch to the mac because the company didn't setup any of the required security rigamarole to run on their internal network, but otherwise, nah. I dropped that years ago - expensive, disposable machines to run emacs, a terminal and a browser ...
Meanwhile, my 7-year old laptop with Fedora on it I type this is wonderfully snappy and stable. I started to get tempted to actually switch back to a Mac just to get some predictability and stability, but I have avoided macs for years. (And - never having to deal with constant line ending issues)
All I hear from other co-workers is how their perfectly specced laptops lag with Windows. It's freaking Stockholm Syndrome here!