Strongly agree. I quickly went from installing software on whatever OS I happened to be using with Windows 7, to actively avoiding booting into Windows with Windows 10. Now, if a binary is available for Linux, I'm using that.
Unfortunately, some areas like embedded development are stuck in the past with support for modern platforms. For example, it is somewhat ironic that I cannot use most tooling for baremetal ARM devices on an ARM platform (tablet, chromebook, raspberry pi) because Eclipse 4+ is a common dependency and is not built for ARM. And before you say it - go try to build Eclipse from source yourself in a reasonable amount of time. Nightmares.
With open toolchains available to serve most of my needs from coding to compilation to EDA to graphic design, it's becoming less of an issue. And on x86/64 platforms, more and more places are starting to provide multiplatform support. But it is so flippin' annoying to have to deal with all the cruft and crap of Win10 when all I want is a clean environment for creating things. Just make the OS easy to use and get it out of the way! It's a product, not a service!
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Strongly agree. I quickly went from installing software on whatever OS I happened to be using with Windows 7, to actively avoiding booting into Windows with Windows 10. Now, if a binary is available for Linux, I'm using that.
Unfortunately, some areas like embedded development are stuck in the past with support for modern platforms. For example, it is somewhat ironic that I cannot use most tooling for baremetal ARM devices on an ARM platform (tablet, chromebook, raspberry pi) because Eclipse 4+ is a common dependency and is not built for ARM. And before you say it - go try to build Eclipse from source yourself in a reasonable amount of time. Nightmares.
With open toolchains available to serve most of my needs from coding to compilation to EDA to graphic design, it's becoming less of an issue. And on x86/64 platforms, more and more places are starting to provide multiplatform support. But it is so flippin' annoying to have to deal with all the cruft and crap of Win10 when all I want is a clean environment for creating things. Just make the OS easy to use and get it out of the way! It's a product, not a service!