![]() You see, knowing the little I knew then about Linux, I still knew that I would be able to do just about anything I needed with a little handy-work. I continue to tweak my OS… I continue to succumb to sleepless nights… And I really don’t know when it will end… A smart decision because this would prove to be no small task…Īs of writing this, I’m about 7–10 days in now. Sidebar: If you are trying for a setup like this, be sure to verify your UEFI & secure boot settings (I recommend Google for this) or you’ll be repairing that MBR more than a few times.Īnyways, one or two sleepless nights later, I finally had Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 dual-booting successfully! I then made the smart decision to get some sleep before I got to configuring my system (installing apps, configuring shortcuts, and otherwise making it as comfy as my Windows & Mac environments ever were). So, while I blamed my wife for jinxing me, this was clearly inevitable. Mind you, I’m installing a dual-boot setup with Windows 10 on the other side and a mix of NVMe & SATA drives. So, I continued to resurrect my Master Boot Record each time I ruined it with a failed Ubuntu installation (thank God for backups). Developing in Node & Docker on a VM or WSL is dreadfully slow (literally about 30% at best on I/O operations versus native Linux). ![]() So when I decided it was about time I made the switch and ran the full-fledged - in all its glory - Linux desktop environment (aka Ubuntu 16.04 w/ Unity), I said “No problem.” My wife said, “You know what’s going to happen, right?”Īnd I was already knee-deep anyways. Yeah, I might have SSHed into a cloud-hosted Linux machine every day for years or had Ubuntu 16.04 running in VirtualBox or Parallels, or a little Raspberry Pi rocking Ubuntu under my desk, but I never really used more than Apache, MySQL, PHP, Node, SSH, VNC… terminal stuff. What amazed me, though, is that I had never really worked & lived inside a Linux environment. ![]() One I’ve long regarded as perhaps the most important open-source project of all time. It’s really a remarkable piece of technology. Among those environments, Linux has actually been unavoidable. This piece is about the transition from mainstream OSes (Windows, Mac) to Linux as a software developer.Īs a developer, I had to learn to work with pretty much every environment just to survive. I just want you to know where I’m coming from. The gap is just so wide already that it will be ages before anyone catches up (although this isn’t ABSOLUTELY true, which I’ll get into more later). ![]() Of course, as a gamer, nothing will ever come close to Windows. I’ve also gamed on just about every one, too - I’m remembering the hundreds of hours of Snake I logged on my TI-83 in middle school. On all of these devices, I’ve written software, developed content, or hacked away on them in some way or another. Courtesy My iPhone and Really Poor Lighting ![]()
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