Thanks, I’ll check it out

The only thing holding me back from asking for an Ubuntu laptop at work is email certificates that we need to install on windows for outlook. Otherwise I’d love to be able to switch

They don’t even let us install wsl2, so annoying

recently got asahi running on an m1 macbook pro. loving the battery life that I get out of it

for an entire year’s worth of development, I honestly would have expected more. Good to see that improvements are being made, but still, it’s pretty small

This 100%. Even if you don’t like canonical, you can get Ubuntu for free and then later pay for support if you need. They have experience managing fleets of systems.

There’s a post on Reddit where a Brazilian state government org is testing out Ubuntu at scale.

I spent 3 days trying to get manjaro to work on my old macbook air 3, and still ran into a borked display sometimes after opening from sleep

I installed endeavour os (online failed, offline worked), and so far I haven’t had a single major issue with it

This is the unfortunate truth. Mathworks tools are heavily used in the engineering space, so it’s an obvious choice for academia to teach.

As much as I try to get my company off of Matlab/Simulink, it’s a challenge. Just so much legacy already written in it

Wow that’s a long time! I think I’m gonna go ahead and try it

Nothing’s gonna be perfect for everyone 👍

My team practices rebasing instead of merging, but generally our tasks are pretty separate so conflicts are uncommon. The ones that we do have are not that big.

However I am anticipating more of them now that we’re changing build systems

I haven’t heard of it actually, I’ll take a look

Work:

• C/C++
• Python
• Matlab (don’t use this one)

Personal:

• Julia
• Rust
• Fortran (trying out something specific rn)

My favorites right now are Julia & Rust. In their respective fields they’re a breath of fresh air and I enjoy coding in them so much. If Carbon ever manages to get off the ground floor I’ll be interested in trying it out. Regular C++ has too many footguns

my team had issues when IT accidentally changed permissions on the files inside a bare git repo located on a file-share. Otherwise it works okay as people clone and work locally. Not the best solution but we’re working around restrictions that makes this the easiest thing to do

Interesting for sure, I never would have thought you could build an entire desktop with JavaScript. Getting support for regular Linux apps would be a must for me

Would this allow for users to customize their desktop with their own JavaScript? Not sure if I missed it, but does it handle multiple monitors?