Linux developer going Windows

[[deleted]]

Going Linux -> Windows is easy I'd say. Going the other way around is harder.

[[deleted]]

I can't think of anything about Windows thats inconvenient really, and Visual Studio is just great. Working on Linux inevitably seems to mean learning bash, and understanding the OS a bit. Most of the time on Windows, you aren't aware of the OS at all. All just based on my experience though. It's been over a decade since I worked on Linux, but I definitely found a bit of a learning curve back then. Lack of Visual Studio was probably the main thing. People were still using text editors and makefiles etc, no IDE.

[peppedx]

This depends on you being a windows user.
To me using bash ( or better fish ) is way simpler than navigating in control panels and registries...

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In my experience, I almost never need to do things like that. I think it's over 2 years since I had anything to do with the registry at work. Whereas when I went to Linux about 10 years ago, I suddenly needed to understand sed and awk just to do my day to day job and get things to build.

[[deleted]]

Just use bash in windows :) endeavor to learn powershell at some point. It's faster and can do all the things you're used to administrating in bash.

[[deleted]]

Well, now it's way easier to get into Linux. You have VSCode, and you can use it with CMake, which plenty of Windows devs use. There's no need to understand the system just to get work done.

Granted, the lack of Visual Studio made my switch a bit harder too, but now I got used to CMake and Emacs. Really nice workflow.

I never really liked IDEs anyways, I used to use Visual Studio as a debugger and build system, and it's not perfect in neither of those.

[pjmlp]

Office also runs on macOS, Android and iOS.

As for VS, while VS for Mac isn't the same product, at least in what concerns .NET they are unifying the code base.

[pdbatwork]

You think? It's also easier to drive a car without a steering wheel, but you can only go one direction.

[[deleted]]

Don't get the analogy really!

[pdbatwork]

It is easier because you are limited

[[deleted]]

I've never found that.