[-] BluefoxLongtail@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Not many new ideas, but plenty of old ideas that I might want to finish before school really gets going. Haven't felt satisfied with anything enough to throw anything out there in a couple years, so maybe it'll change.

[-] BluefoxLongtail@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Usually, I name it quite literally, or whatever my superior has already planned to name it. If I'm working on a team, I cede to someone else. If I can't think of a name, it gets a ambiguous name and a date. This goes for my programming projects and not programming projects alike.

[-] BluefoxLongtail@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago

Hello! I'm Bluefox. I'm mostly a C/C++ programmer, but dabble in Java because school makes me. I also have an interest in COBOL, Pascal, and Fortran, but haven't had the time to study them. Been attempting to code or fiddle with code at least since I was 8 or 9, and now I study it. Hoping to do research work with programming in the future.

[-] BluefoxLongtail@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

It used to be multiple workspaces, but with Windows having that now, it's just the ease of install and use of build tools.

Part of this is the existence of package managers, and part of it is just how well they integrate with the operating system. Using the GNU Compiler Collection on Linux or Linux-like systems is just so much less of a rigamarole compared to getting any usable set-up on Windows.

Another thing I miss when I go to use Windows is the compose key. It's so much better integrated on Linux. Mac's solution to special characters meanwhile is fine. Windows' just isn't.

Finally, and this is the biggest one is little power user customizability tools (yes, I know Microsoft has things made for this, but they aren't installed and/or available out of the box). Customizability of the programs one uses everyday and the overall behaviour of one's computer is an absolute must, but I understand why Microsoft moved Windows away from that model. Most people don't want or need that.

Others have mentioned it too, but Linux just doesn't get in your way like many other OSes do.

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