Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader
I recently bought a Lenovo sporting Windows 10 and decided to give it a fair try. I've been using Windows exclusively on my personal laptop for about 2 months and so far it's a good experience. This is after 16 years of running linux (or briefly a mac) on the desktop.<p>The window manager is tolerable (not as good as Xmonad, but equivalent to Unity). Windows subsystem for linux is letting me get my work done with no problems. Anaconda lets me do scientific python work natively from within windows. Emacs seems to work just fine. Cortana is actually pretty cool.<p>Overall, I haven't felt the need to race back to Linux. I'm surprised to say this, but Windows <i>might</i> be an acceptable linux.<p>(A while back I wrote about my failed attempt to use OS X: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1787411" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1787411</a> )