admit it. you need Windows for a comprehensive personal computing experience.
>linux for tinkering and programming
>windows for everything else
linux is great, but you are seriously cucking yourself for muh beliefs and philasuhfee
you need both to be happy and whole
Pretty sure all you need is MacOS to be happy.
If I need Linux how come I haven't installed it in about 10 years?
You don't need Linux if you aren't a software developer. And even then, most of the time you can do software development on Windows just fine.
i admit i want to nakadashi kyouko-chan
Nobody ever needed Linux if they have a Windows license.
VirtualBox has been available, with tools like Vagrant for development.
It's just that a lot of web development is done with Linux servers, so a lot of the useful tools were only functional for Linux or Mac. Things have changed though.
Developing in C++ on Windows makes me want to die. Linux is a much better dev environment.
and then how you run an IDE?
inside the VM -> slow as fuck
through an X11 connection -> buggy as fuck and somewhat slow
outside the VM in a shared folder -> buggy as fuck, harder to run debuggers, can't detect changed files well, etc.
bare metal on either system is probably the best option
Linux is perfectly fine for programming, casual gaming, doing daily tasks as using web browser, using libreoffice and making memes with gimp.
I moved to Linux back in 2014 and never looked back. Looks like I made a wise decision too.
patching windows license is something even a 15 year old can do, so it's not something that blocks anyone from using windows instead of linux.
Lol. Visual Studio is the only highly productive C++ development environment on the planet. I have colleagues working on Linux and they can't do the simplest things. Refactor? Lol, forget it, by the time you've "grep"ed through the source and verified every match and replaced every occurrence of the name, I've pressed Ctrl-R,R, renamed the method, finished three code reviews and am taking a coffee break. Debugging? I have never seen a less productive debugger than gdb. All the information is obscured, there is no way to set breakpoints right in your editor, you have to copy-paste method names from your editor to your terminal to set breakpoints! And it doesn't even show you source! With Visual Studio it's only two clicks and you're right there, in the source, setting breakpoints and debugging. Code navigation? Absolute trash. All you get is a text index. Try finding a single implementation of a method that overrides a pure virtual method when your cursor is hovering the declaration in the header file. Oh what's that? Your TAGS file has a bajillion tags with that name because that's a frequently implemented interface so you have to wade through hundreds of results? I feel bad for ya, because for me it's just F12 and I'm right there. Let's not even talk about things like "automatically stubbing out implementations of pure virtual methods" and any other code generation facilities. The only thing you get on Linux is to feel like a "super hacker" because you're typing text in a terminal. Sorry kiddo, but the real world doesn't care about your green tinted terminal, we have to get work done.
Worst Yuru
Ever heard of jetbrains CLion? Probably not
>gimp.
Yikes. Use Krita.
>linux is great, but you are seriously cucking yourself for muh beliefs and philasuhfee
>you need both to be happy and whole
Why? All this text and not a single pro or con to both.
You are an unemployed LARPer. No one greps to refactor anything. And don't blame your lack of knowledge on GDB, it works just fine.
Linux + GNU never had a problem with any porn paysite I have used.
No. I need macOS for anything productive. I use Windows on my Surface Pro for drawing in Photoshop. All other uses for Windows (other than fixing it, which I have to do regularly because every now and then it manages to break itself) is video games. I prefer macOS because of the way it handles files better. QuickLook, Spotlight, being able to move a file while it is open, being able to access the same file with two programs, the filename in the top of the window's title bar that you can right click to open a list of the file's path, and more. All things Windows can't even dream of. Windows has become more bearable of course, with the addition of WSL and bash, but it still is a hellscape in terms of efficient productivity. GNU/Linux is useful to set something up, like a server and then forget about it, as well as experimenting.
CLion is garbage, I tried it once and it crashed trying to index our codebase.
So how do you click to set a breakpoint in GDB?
define "comprehensive". For a lot of people the OS is basically just a substrate for running a web browser. Linux does that just fine.
*breaks your ABI*
I would ____ (hint:FUCK) China
Lol
I don't need Linux Techtips or Windows at all, Gentoo is all I need.
My wallet won't be happy.
>inb4 what are you poor
No, i just don't like wasting money
Why would you lie on the internet, Anonymous?
>bare metal
yeah, that is probably the best solution unironically
i always think of the exact same way as OP
what do?
I have yet to find a reason to need Microsoft Windows.
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Whatever
>>linux for tinkering and programming
Windows is better for programming as the number of languages having first class support for Windows is higher than the number of languages with Linux 1st class support.
Is this Microsoft support?
>they didn't choose the anime mascot
yikes
stupid /v/tard, leave please
>linux is great, but you are seriously cucking yourself for muh beliefs and philasuhfee
that's not why anybody actually uses linux, like maybe 1% of its users at most actually care about any of that shit but for me i just find it convenient for software dev. considering that's what i spend most of my time doing i have no reason to use anything else, maybe another windows partition i touch a couple times a month at best to use the few things i need that don't run on linux but having to do that isn't really an inherent problem with linux itself, there's just not that much support
yeah in the same way that you don't need to eat good food because mcdonalds exists. it's a shittier experience
baby duck syndrome
ok but the languages that actually matter are supported like fuckin trash, have you looked at msvc?
dumb tomatoposter
I need Windows for games and that is all.
using windows is like getting fucked while wearing handcuffs
You don't need toys. Grow up.
no
Tinkering and programming is all what I use my computer for.
You mean like the Linux kernel every 5 days?
I don't lie, I've never seen a Linux "super hacker" be able to match the productivity of Visual Studio, even with the grotesque frankensteinian monsters they construct out of their text editors. Why would I spend years of my life fiddling with half-broken "muh open sores" bullshit, when I can just install Visual Studio, the standard C++ IDE.
> baby duck syndrome
wat
>wat
Hi, reddit.
>admit it. you need Windows for a comprehensive personal computing experience.
Then why don't I use it? I think you're just a kid that still likes video games.
>ok but the languages that actually matter are supported like fuckin trash, have you looked at msvc?
What exactly is so wrong about it?
Plus with MinGW you can use GCC, no problem.
Implying I use my computer for anything other than programming and browsing Jow Forums
I admit. I still use linux because windows is a slow piece of shit
outdated/inconsistent support for newer versions of the C and C++ standard. and yes, you can use GCC, but overall i consider it less of a hassle to just use linux in the first place instead of playing pretend
Windows is garbage.
>yeah in the same way that you don't need to eat good food because mcdonalds exists. it's a shittier experience
no it's not
If linux became as good as windows at GUI (even with all the useless crap they put in windows 10) I'd switch
Idk what you mean by "everything else", but Linux works just fine as a low maintenance media consumption & web browsing OS.
nobody cares about GUIs, function > form. when i talk about the experience i'm not talking about aero or some shit
>admit it. you need Windows for a comprehensive personal computing experience.
What does this even mean?
>>linux for tinkering and programming
Literally all I do on the computer all day.
I don't want to have to RTFM every time I want to change my cursor size and stupid shit like that
Plus objectively Windows has more functionality than Linux because of a bigger software library. The only advantage Linux has is running obscure research or ML software like Torch
There are plenty of plugins for texteditors and ides that let you set breakpoints by clicking on lines of code.
Hell, even my vim plugins allow me to do that.
>every time I want to change my cursor size
WTF how often do you do this? I've literally never done this. Just use the default.
Fucking ricer fags.
>I don't want to have to RTFM every time I want to change my cursor size and stupid shit like that
just because you're supposed to use the terminal a lot doesn't mean it's inherently more difficult
>Plus objectively Windows has more functionality than Linux because of a bigger software library. The only advantage Linux has is running obscure research or ML software like Torch
then you're no longer talking about the OS, just the software developed for it
But there's no valgrind on Windows.
Mac is expensive, Mac OS is 20 dollars.
It crashes because of windblows.
Guaranteed way to get 300 replies. Some retarded moeposter /v/tard posts some stupid shit about Linux. I wish I could leave Jow Forums but it's like a drug at this point