I wonder what kind of support for development do you get? Honestly I’ve only had obstacles when I switched, for example the docker installation was much more complicated on linux than on windows+wsl. Even installing python was problematic because apparently ‘upgrading it yourself can brick the system’, at least if an older version comes with the OS?

And lastly it’s the simple thing that pretty much all tools work on windows natively but on linux you have to find workarounds, which is definitely a problem when it comes to productivity.

So what are the benefits, what does linux have that windows doesn’t in this context?

I’ve only gone through the reddit thread and tbh most people seem to be bashing this method and pointing out flaws? It doesn’t seem like a magic bullet solution and dual boot seems like the better option, at least for now.

Yeah I’m the same way, there is a 6h video linked in your post but i can’t imagine myself actually going through it like that lol. I’m also in the process of trying to move data and media off my main PC but haven’t figured out the best way yet, I have an older laptop that I was considering setting up as a mini pc/home server but then there’s also the option of buying a NAS… it gets complicated and more expensive fast either way.

Can you elaborate? Googling linux vfio just gives me text heavy documents I dont understand. How does that replace dual booting and how would I use it?

Oh didn’t see that one, thanks! Of all the advice there did anything stick with you and help in the end?

Sure, but whoever’s fault it was didn’t really matter to me at the time. I just remember being annoyed at everyone constantly praising linux and saying how easy it is nowadays while I’m just jumping from one issue into another, that experience made me delay moving my main PC to it since I also have an nvidia GPU there. Had to go through like 3 different ways of installing drivers, various weird containers or bottles or wine and lutris or proton just for it all to constantly freeze or crash my PC.

It was a Dell laptop, not sure about specs but it’s at least a few years old model, nothing too high end. The plan was to keep it as a small home server for hosting various stuff, services, media in the end, with varying success.

I was so excited about Mint, seemed like the perfect distro to try but then I had nothing but issues on an laptop with nvidia. PopOS worked better right out of the box though

You can kinda see this in things like modding communities or anything piracy related too. Users just want easy solutions even if it’s at the expense of creators, and creators are doing it more and more for money rather than any personal drive or satisfaction. I can’t believe we’ve reached a point where even mods are being locked behind paywalls, need to be commissioned or sometimes have entire teams funded by patreon to work on them, it’s just another business nowadays.

Git Fork is amazing

The most common usecase is generating data models based on the database, mostly using t4 files so far. We have a non-standard way of defining some parts of it so the default MS tools don’t quite cut it (like ef dbcontext scaffold). I’ve been looking into roslyn but it seems like it might be more trouble than its worth, but default t4 doesn’t even have a proper editor and syntax highlighting so its a low bar atm.

If our content gets federated to threads then it just means that google results will point to it first rather than to us, they will probably have better indexing and search features than the fediverse. People will also probably think the content originated on threads too (since that’s where they see it and threads could easily obfuscate info like that) instead of who actually made it.

It could increase the short term engagement but in the long run, it will just serve to make threads better.

I was really hoping there was something like hamachi/xfire/garena from the old days but modernized and more stable 😅 I just assumed it’d be a solved problem by now.

I’m not giving up on tailscale yet, I’ll try the funnel feature but yeah… seems a bit troublesome for sure

Thanks for linking that, seems like a great resource! Seems like there’s a few that support UDP although I’m not sure if they will work with a CGNAT setup, also their setup seems a bit more complicated and technical than expected but I need to look more into it tomorrow. If everyone else needs to have this installed then that might be an issue

I only have half as much experience as you, and none with Go specifically, so I can’t give you any good answers but I can say I empathize - the company I work at is also stuck with a legacy monolith that’s still on .net framework and everything is so coupled that it’s impossible to even unit test, less alone deploy the projects separately. Some people aren’t bothered even with the basic principles of code writing and the senior people are just overworked and can’t keep tabs on it even if they wanted to.

The worst part is that the company is mostly either juniors just doing what they are told or older seniors that are stuck in their ways and are afraid of anything new - although as I got older I started to see why that might be the correct approach, not everyone wants to learn and adapt to new tech and it’s a big ask of the upper management to risk it on that. Basically we’re just repeating the same mistakes and wasting time fixing known errors that keep happening and any actual improvement or proper removal of tech debt never happens.

So yeah… I’m starting to believe that “clean good code” only happens either in hobby projects or new startups. Any larger, “stable” codebase of a larger company is going to be an inefficient mess however 🤷‍♂️

I agree completely. The discussion was what we replace English with however.

I’m not in favor of replacing English, I’m just saying if we want an alterantive I don’t want it to be a nation-specific language again, so to speak.

It’s a neutral, easily accessible language. Having it in programming could incentivize more people to learn it as well.

I’m not disagreeing outright but… Why do we need more non English programming languages? Is there a specific practical reason?

The only language translation I’d maybe consider to accept in programming is Esperanto. Anything else just sounds like a terrible idea.

I use the CLI for simple commands, especially if helping someone on another PC and I don’t have access to my preferred tool, but I honestly don’t get people who use it religiously and never even try tools with GUIs. The convenience of being able to easily see the commit history, scroll through it, have a right click context menu or ability to just click it and see file changes (and then right click those files for additional options), is just something I can’t abandon. Nowadays even the aliasing can be replicated in those tools if they support creation of custom commands so even that is a moot point - with some setup you can be as fast as with a CLI.