For someone who has implied he doesn't use Windows, you seem to know rather a lot ;-)

Heh, well from 1995-2000 I didn't know Linux existed. From 2000-2004 I was using a Windows desktop with Cygwin and "User Mode Linux" (kind of like today's Windows Subsystem for Linux) to run native Linux apps while also running a FreeBSD server to offload persistent things like file shares. It was pretty cool - I had the Cygwin X server and programs running in User Mode Linux could connect to it and render windows right alongside my Windows apps.

From 2004-2018 I had what I called a "hybrid desktop" where Windows got two monitors and Linux got one monitor and I had a gigabit crossover cable between them for my samba shares and used Synergy to let my mouse roam from one monitor to the other giving me seamless copy/paste between Windows and Linux desktops. I no longer needed much from cygwin because a full half of my desktop was actual Linux and all the files of any importance were on Linux. By the end of that, Windows had 2 monitors and Linux had 4 monitors, since almost everything was browser-based, and my laptop was linux-only, and even the Windows half was a dual-boot with Linux.

I was also doing quite a lot of software to support Windows in the 2007-2011 years, and from 2015-2022 I was sysadmin for a Windows Server, so I had to keep dealing with it even if my workstation was migrating away from it.

In 2018 I had found Linux substitutes for pretty much every Windows app I previously needed for work, and switched to using Linux as my daily driver and only booting into Windows to play games. So at that point, I was no longer customizing Windows for development work, or at all, really, since I don't care what the experience is like for the few minutes it takes me to open a video game.

When Windows 11 came out and started spamming me with advertisements and latest gossip-news and giving me Bing results when I was trying to search for Control Panel applets, I spent a few hours researching how to turn all that off permanently by uninstalling Windows components. When it all came back the next month because MS helpfully re-installed all those components without my permission, I decided I was done with it forever to the greatest degree possible. I do still have my dual-boot with windows 11, kept for the sole purpose of playing StarCraft II which I can never get to run reliably in Wine, but I haven't had time to play in nearly a year, so that's pretty much the end of Windows for me. ...with the exception that I do have a VM with Windows 10 so that I can test my published cpan modules on Win32. Also my wife still has a windows laptop, so it's never totally gone.

In reply to Re^5: File::XDG on varying platforms by NERDVANA
in thread File::XDG on varying platforms by Intrepid

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