Ask HN: Has Windows improved for Unix

阿新 • • 發佈：2018-12-28

I’m impressed with the Surface Pro hardware and could see myself dropping Mac hardware entirely.

What stops me is Windows. I’m very comfortable in Unix-like environments and I’m not giving that up.

Last time I used Windows (~8 years ago?) it wasn’t really possible to achieve a comfortable Unix-like workflow in Windows, and the quality of tooling and ecosystem for Windows devs was abysmal (unless you were doing Windows platform dev specifically). But their recent activity with VS Code and support for open source and acquisition of GitHub etc makes me think maybe that situation has improved recently.

Have any of you switched from Mac (or Linux) back to Windows recently and kept a Unix-based workflow? What solutions did you find, and how painful has it been?

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