Interestingly, if you have a 4K display, text in Windows looks much better than MacOS (which requires scaling). Unfortunately that only applies to the OS interface, it still looks like a monkey’s ass in the browser.
A strange thought process. If you wanted Unix on not-Apple, a Linux desktop remains the more reasonable option(sub the perpetual caveat of having to vet the hardware for compatability).<p>And my first inclination would be to see how things go with Msys2 before banking on WSL. You will eventually end up navigating build processes in some depth - but I don't see that as a Windows problem so much as a Unix/libc monoculture problem that gets swept under the rug by never leaving that environment. You won't have quite the same experience with a fully MS stack or with not-specifically-Unixy tools.
Interesting write-up, but it sounds like he didn't want to succeed. I have been using WSL for two years now as my primary development environment and it works great. Yes, file I/O is slow, but unless you do a ton of I/O it really isn't that big of a problem for dev work. I like having access to Ubuntu repositories and I actually prefer it to MacOS/Brew.<p>He also spends time complaining about Edge when it just takes a few minutes to download and install Chrome as your default browser.<p>Finally, Linux is pretty good these days. I have a System76 laptop running Pop!_OS and it's super nice, everything works out of the box. Why he decided to use Windows if he wanted a *nix environment is a little strange.
> The first version of WSL is marred with terrible file-system performance...<p>Does anyone know why this is and how it can be fixed? (Either by the Windows team or by end users)
Dude if you need Linux, just get a Linux laptop. They sell them now, System76 comes to mind, but I think Ubuntu partnered with Dell and/or Lenovo to make one as well.
How can a usually intelligent, sometimes very insightful guy like DHH be so foolish as to buy something, spend some short time trying to make it act like something else, and conclude it's no good?<p>Does the Mac have a Windows subsystem? Would you investigate that and use it as the sole determinant of the Mac's quality?<p>Sheesh!
i am confused about font rendering,
this article states the exact opposite: <a href="https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/" rel="nofollow">https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/</a>
The first time I launched Windows 10 on my machine my eyes bled. The font rendering is just awful, the OP is right.<p>After much effort had the anti-aliasing disabled and system font switched to Tahoma. Guess what? Next update reverted them all back to the terrible blurriness of whatever the default font is.<p>While, after much registry patching later, the fonts are not changed, but the damn thing still changes the default associations after what appears to be silent updates.<p>What? The user explicitly told me to use Notepad++ as a default app for .txt? Change that - to the full Notepad idiotic glory! Prefer to use Foxit for PDF? Back to Edge you go, stupid user!<p>I am not going to start about telemetry. Whose problem is Microsoft solving? Certainly not the end user who plopped $200 for Win 10 license. Whose then?