The current status of OSX/Win reminds me a lot of early-days git (not in all ways, but in this one): 1/
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as someone using Windows at work for the first time the last few months the lack of standard UNIX is baffling and frightening.
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simple things like installing Ruby and rubygems are catastrophically difficult.
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as long as you're on the happy Visual Studio happy path though everything is fine.
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Have you tried to use bash-for-windows?
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no. Is that Windows 10 only? Or does it involve a vm? There limits on what I can do to my work machine on my own
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yeah Windows 10 only. Best on Insider Builds, but available on Anniversary Edition.
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bash for windows is still pretty limited perf wise, I still use a VM on my Win10 for all my Ruby https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-notes-for-discourse-on-bash-for-windows/48141 …
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I don't have major issues with Ember CLI, this is an interesting perspective.
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why is Linux not part of this thought?
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it is. I dual boot to Gnome 3.
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If relevant, which distro? And in either case: where does GNU/Linux fit in the Win/OSX parallel?
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Gnome Ubuntu.
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Interesting observation, can't say I agree.
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I don't expect most people to ;)
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My main objection is the metaphor. :P But I also don't know of much interesting going on with the NT OSes. At least from my CS lens.
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reimplementing the Linux kernel on top of the NT kernel at least qualifies as interesting ;)
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They've had a POSIX compatibility layer for quite some time. I'm not really sure how another platform translation more interesting.
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I can’t stand how often Win restarts for updates then doesn’t resume any of your work. MacOS updates rarely and resumes your work
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perfect analogy
And, also @Apple is in denial like SVN maintainers.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Ahem. The elephant in the room is the OS that is almost certainly the target OS for that Ruby code you write.
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