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2049 points bpierre | 7 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.758s | source | bottom
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matt_wulfeck ◴[30 Mar 16 17:35 UTC] No.11391211[source]▶
microsoft is leveraging FOSS Linux to get Mac users. I think it's a real smart move.

The author points to using grep and Xargs and some other tools to quickly update a package. That's the key here. These bash/Linux utilities are productivy boosters for all the Linux and Mac/bsd people out there. I can't imagine living without them and they're necessary for any system I develop on (which is currently a Mac).

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1. whatever_dude ◴[30 Mar 16 17:57 UTC] No.11391451[source]▶
I agree. I'm (mostly) a Windows user, and the one reason I'm constantly thinking of moving to OSX as my primary OS is the amount of command-line tooling that is available in the system. Everything new is always there first. I've started feeling that I was holding back by staying on Windows, even if using Mingw daily.

This might be the thing that saves Windows as a dev machine for me. I'm a heavy cmd/powershell user but I'd migrate to bash in an instant.

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2. avtar ◴[30 Mar 16 18:03 UTC] No.11391521[source]▶
> I'm constantly thinking of moving to OSX as my primary OS is the amount of command-line tooling that is available in the system. Everything new is always there first.

Having had OS X, Windows, and various Linux distributions as my primary operating systems I would consider having an Arch Linux VM kicking around if you want all the packages in the world, maintained fairly well.

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3. swah ◴[30 Mar 16 21:20 UTC] No.11393105[source]▶
Me too - but why not a Linux VM or a VPS? Its mostly for textual usage, no?

(My own answer is that cheap VPSes are 150ms away from me, and with Virtualbox I had a few problems, always related to Windows file permissions yada yada yada...)

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4. whatever_dude ◴[30 Mar 16 21:39 UTC] No.11393243[source]▶
I've done so in the past, but it becomes cumbersome to manage shared folders. The ability to have everything shared and your driver naturally working under /mnt/ - essentially replacing cmd with bash and its tools - is a big deal for me. Using editing/managing/design tools in Windows build with a build/deploy system in bash, and no middle man... that'd be the day.
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5. whatever_dude ◴[30 Mar 16 21:44 UTC] No.11393274[source]▶
Same. At some point managing permissions and sharing and VMs just becomes a pain. If I can just drop to bash and access my file system... that's all I need/want.
6. matt_wulfeck ◴[30 Mar 16 21:59 UTC] No.11393369[source]▶
150ms sucks when you're working with multi GB files and packages. Also network security is not ideal.

Nothing beats running and developing on localhost.

7. Scarbutt ◴[31 Mar 16 03:01 UTC] No.11394707{3}[source]▶
You don't use shared folders with your linux VM, you ssh to it, and use tmux/(vim|emacs) ;)