I've tried moving over to Linux full-time, except for games and a few other apps that need Window, but it's been unsuccessful for me. :( However, I have a local file server with all my data on it that is 100% Linux, so I consider that a "somewhat" of a success, haha~
The Year of the Desktop has been thrown around so much, it feels like a joke to me. Linux has a lot of challenges to overcome to be a truly viable widely used w
orkstation. For getting Real Work done, though, I cannot fathom how people using Windows do it. Windows lacks a decent terminal emulator. Linux has its console, and rxvt. macOS has iTerm2.
Windows has WSL (I love me some WSL, but it's very lacking as a terminal emulator) and Putty (different problems than WSL has). Maybe the new Terminal will be better? I don't like having to edit JSON to configure something. Give me YAML or .ini files. JSON is for computer to computer communication.
JSON is nice because it is human readable ("readable". it is at least text, unlike XML which is mostly < and >) but not for configuration files. YAML and .ini are much nicer to hand edit.
All in honesty, it's a damn shame that not all programs I use on Windows are compiled for Linux. On all my machines, even my low-spec ones, they all perform leagues better on Linux than on Windows. But... driver compatibility alongside with software not being compiled for Linux (Wine does not work well for them), holds me back from having my workstations running Linux on them... :\
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