Month: January 2018

This is part of a series on moving from desktop Linux back to Windows. The first post is here. The previous post is here. Windows software management: the current default state Three years ago, I wrote about moving from Windows to Linux for personal computing and development. Part of my frustration with Windows was around package management — installing, keeping up to date, and removing software. And part of my motivation for experimenting with moving back to Windows is the existence of what appears to be a serviceable solution for package management on Windows: Chocolatey. More on that soon. But … Continue reading Goin’ back to Windows: package management with Chocolatey

This is part of a series on moving from desktop Linux back to Windows. The first post is here. Learning about WSL and Windows Automation from Jessie Frazelle I mentioned in the previous Goin’ Back to Windows post that I was partly influenced to make the move by reading what Jessie Frazelle and others had written on the topic. In this quick  post, I want to call out a few of Jessie’s writings in particular. First, Windows for Linux nerds. She talks about how Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) works, calling windows programs from a bash prompt, and even creating … Continue reading Goin’ back to Windows: Thanks Jessie!

Three years ago, I wrote about moving off of Windows/Mac and onto Linux for personal computing and developing. Three years later, I’ve moved back to Windows. In that 3-year-old post, which was about habit change and work/life balance, the key features I was looking for in a developer machine were a solid terminal and easier installation/updating of software via package management. The things I use most as a developer these days are Go, a database such as PostgreSQL, docker, a terminal to interact with those things, Jenkins, a web browser, and an IDE of some sort. In the intervening years, … Continue reading Goin’ back to Windows… Windows… Windows…