VSCode is one of the best free editors second only to Neovim (and maybe DoomEmacs), and the world runs off GitHub whether we like it or not. Azure runs Linux, and a lot of work has been put into WSL to where it’s pretty darn handy if you’re forced to use company Windows hardware but need to do Dev/SRE tasks.
Windows 11 and Teams though can die in a tire fire.
If you don’t want telemetry, you have to use VScodium, and then you don’t get to use marketplace. Github didn’t start as a Microsoft project or it would be far more enshittified than it is now, but even so Microsoft is sure trying to fuck that up with their Copilot bullshit.
WSL is the definitition of EEE, and has prevented a great deal of Linux-ward movement that might have happened without it, even with IT department resistance. It’s a crutch to keep devs from having to go to Linux to get the useful tools, like docker which is a mess on Windows, but just usable enough to get by.
And oh, yes, Teams can get shot with a ball of its own shit and fall into the dumpster fire.
the world runs off GitHub whether we like it or not
It doesn’t and we don’t like it anyway.
PS: to clarify, yes GitHub is wildly popular but, and the kernel is a particularly interesting example, it does not host ALL projects, only a lot of popular ones. A lot of very popular ones are also NOT there but rather on their own git, mailing list, GitLab instance, Gitea, etc. It’s a shortcut, I understand that, but by ascertaining it as “truth” it’s hiding a reality that is quite different and showing that reliable alternatives do exist.
Certainly don’t take my posting of this as an endorsement of anything Microsoft does. I loathe Microsoft.
VSCode is one of the best free editors second only to Neovim (and maybe DoomEmacs), and the world runs off GitHub whether we like it or not. Azure runs Linux, and a lot of work has been put into WSL to where it’s pretty darn handy if you’re forced to use company Windows hardware but need to do Dev/SRE tasks.
Windows 11 and Teams though can die in a tire fire.
If you don’t want telemetry, you have to use VScodium, and then you don’t get to use marketplace. Github didn’t start as a Microsoft project or it would be far more enshittified than it is now, but even so Microsoft is sure trying to fuck that up with their Copilot bullshit.
WSL is the definitition of EEE, and has prevented a great deal of Linux-ward movement that might have happened without it, even with IT department resistance. It’s a crutch to keep devs from having to go to Linux to get the useful tools, like docker which is a mess on Windows, but just usable enough to get by.
And oh, yes, Teams can get shot with a ball of its own shit and fall into the dumpster fire.
@ikidd @BaconIsAVeg Correct on WSL, one of the best Trojan horse ever built.
It doesn’t and we don’t like it anyway.
PS: to clarify, yes GitHub is wildly popular but, and the kernel is a particularly interesting example, it does not host ALL projects, only a lot of popular ones. A lot of very popular ones are also NOT there but rather on their own git, mailing list, GitLab instance, Gitea, etc. It’s a shortcut, I understand that, but by ascertaining it as “truth” it’s hiding a reality that is quite different and showing that reliable alternatives do exist.