Windows 10 pushed me to Linux.
I spent the last few years slowly but surely weening myself off a dependence on Microsoft tools (at home anyway). I switched my dev environment from VS/C# to Python/Komodo. Email from Outlook to Gmail/Thunderbird. Stopped using IE a decade ago or more. The idea behind it was to make sure I wasn't really bound to a particular platform.
The last few times I tried Linux, I'd either end up with Windows withdrawals, or some game/app I forgot about that I still used, or the kids would complain (or wife) and would end up back on Windows. This time, I've kept another machine running Windows on it, but my primary machine I installed Mint 17.2 on it, and no dual booting.
Things I'm missing - Can't play Witcher 3 (but apparently a native version is coming soon), and I'll probably miss out on SW: Battlefront. However a bunch of other games I play have native Linux ports, in particular Kerbal Space Program. I went a little nuts and buy a brand new gtx 980ti that might not get stretched as much as it could by switching platforms.
Things I'm enjoying - The font rendering seems nicer? Maybe it's imagined though. Komodo IDE runs way better under Linux than Windows, I have no idea why. I like the fact that my time investment in learning Python is paying off because a lot of the support tools/background tasks are written in Python. Especially good is now being able to see open source/dev projects that in the past I would skip over looking at because hey - no native Windows port.
It's been a couple of weeks since I switched now, and no regrets yet. Thanks Windows 10.
I spent the last few years slowly but surely weening myself off a dependence on Microsoft tools (at home anyway). I switched my dev environment from VS/C# to Python/Komodo. Email from Outlook to Gmail/Thunderbird. Stopped using IE a decade ago or more. The idea behind it was to make sure I wasn't really bound to a particular platform.
The last few times I tried Linux, I'd either end up with Windows withdrawals, or some game/app I forgot about that I still used, or the kids would complain (or wife) and would end up back on Windows. This time, I've kept another machine running Windows on it, but my primary machine I installed Mint 17.2 on it, and no dual booting.
Things I'm missing - Can't play Witcher 3 (but apparently a native version is coming soon), and I'll probably miss out on SW: Battlefront. However a bunch of other games I play have native Linux ports, in particular Kerbal Space Program. I went a little nuts and buy a brand new gtx 980ti that might not get stretched as much as it could by switching platforms.
Things I'm enjoying - The font rendering seems nicer? Maybe it's imagined though. Komodo IDE runs way better under Linux than Windows, I have no idea why. I like the fact that my time investment in learning Python is paying off because a lot of the support tools/background tasks are written in Python. Especially good is now being able to see open source/dev projects that in the past I would skip over looking at because hey - no native Windows port.
It's been a couple of weeks since I switched now, and no regrets yet. Thanks Windows 10.