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I've definitely struggled with getting a good bang for my performance buck on the macOS ecosystem for building a video editing or gaming rig. These days you can find a pre-made PC with 32gb RAM, GTX 1070, core i7 and more for $1400, but mac specs come nowhere close for that kind of price. Really don't want to move back to the Windows ecosystem but also paying over 2x for worse specs is silly.

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Their desktops don't benefit as much from great power management, excellent hardware integration (trackpad especially), and general doing-the-right-thing when plugging in external devices (especially displays) as their mobile devices do. Even with missteps and price increases it remains difficult to leave the Macbook because their laptops are so good, and the competition still hasn't caught up. Desktops? Way easier to live with Windows (ugh) or get Linux working the way you want it and leave it alone there than it is on a laptop, since its environment is mostly static, its I/O devices are all replaceable, and power use matters way less.

It's much closer to a fair fight on the desktop front for Windows/Linux.

If you don't want to code on it, windows is fine. (and if you can get past them violating your privacy)

If you need to code on it.... just don't

I love my windows machine for doing all my leisure activities. Its a shame that after all these years they can't learn from linux/mac and make a decent dev environment

I remember how mind blowing it was to install pip/python on my windows when I was first starting out. Easily installing packages from the cmd, so revolutionary! /s

If you don't want to code on it, windows is fine.

If you need to code on it.... just don't

VirtualBox with Xubuntu Linux in Seamless mode for my Windows laptop. I bought a Windows laptop with a GTX 1070. Now I can do VR on my laptop, but bash in Windows was half baked. It's better to use VirtualBox!

> How to make Windows usable, step 1: install Linux.

FTFY

Windows 10 comes with Ubuntu installed.

No, it doesn't. It comes with a portion of Ubuntu tools available for install through some backwards way (or at least it was a few months ago when I installed it). The bash console is probably not as good as PuTTY for SSH management, and that was the big highlight of the functionality for me - being able to manage my servers without pulling out another computer. It's better than nothing, but it is no where near good enough for me as a dev who works in Unix from development to production. I do use the bash console for some simple server management when I am away from my work machine, but I could not imagine it ever being a worthy replacement for iTerm2 (or any console on Windows, really, not just the Bash console)

I find the window managers better in Linux, so there just isn't a replacement for me (on Windows, I have to install Alt-Drag [1], but it's super buggy), otherwise this would be super compelling.

https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/

That's why I moved to Linux :)

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