You will never interact with this pipeline if using the Web GPU vulkan renderer, which has its own issues. I personally experience some form of memory leak / latency when working in terminals that have been open for a 'good' amount of time.
Also note that the cost of Windows machines is half the price of their Mac counterparts, even with the specs doubled.
For many folks Windows is an all-round multipurpose platform (gaming included) and they wouldn't want to invest in other machines just for doing development work, so they stick to it as their main OS. Yes we know of the horrible bloat, tracking and privacy invasion that the OS does to us, but many people tend to just ignore it and move on.
Or in the case of enterprises, Windows gets controlled and managed by a (hopefully) competent IT team or enterprise desktop group, and with LTSC versions Microsofts give them the tools to strip the bloat, tracking, and most of the privacy invasions (to then be replaced with corporate privacy invasions in a lot of cases).
Point being, Windows as an enterprise user desktop is a whole different beast from Windows on the laptop mom and dad just bought from Best Buy.
HN lives in a macOS/Linux bubble, but outside of SV it's a Windows world still. So much of the world runs on Windows in places that you wouldn't even expect to see Windows. And with enterprise purchasing agreements, you can get some good deals on bulk laptop purchases that you aren't getting from Apple. $1,000 or less per 32GB of RAM laptop, depending on how many you are buying. I've seen bulk purchases as low as $700/laptop for enterprises that buy thousands at a time for scheduled refreshes. You're not going to be able to buy everyone a MacBook Pro for that pricing.
Windows remains one of the best general purpose OSes for generic office worker productivity, and I don't see that changing anytime soon unless Microsoft really fucks it up with whatever Copilot garbage they are doing.
Microsoft consultants very actively discourage the use of LTSC for... "reasons".
Translation: "It hurts our KPIs if our telemetry starts falling off and we can't push Minecraft and AI updates to as many desktops at will!"
Better to find a reputable VAR and get your licensing through them and don't ever deal with Microsoft directly.
I also enjoy going to grab a maximised window by its title bar and somehow grabbing the window behind it.
It seems to struggle with differentiating between what's a user initiated focus-steal and what's automated/originating from the app without user action.
I'll take that over what existed before, which was any app could just open a window and give itself focus at any time.
Bullshit, MacBooks are one of the cheaper options for usable devices today. Esp in there entry segment.
Sadly, the one problem with WSL(g) is graphical rendering. It can't handle DPI scaling properly at all (yes, even with experimental settings) and the result is blurriness, gigantic mouse cursor, clicks not registered where the cursor appears to be, or itty-bitty icons and UI that you can barely see.
I can't stand that they haven't fixed it in all this time.
Also it’s not just a “gaming OS”.
It's my go to machine, I also own a MBP m1 and an m3 max with 48 GBs, but my Windows desktop is by far the most capable machine of the three (a notebook cpu and ram, even the m3 max are still notebook hardware) and the OS I like the most for programming.
I program mostly in WSL2, so essentially in Ubuntu, but the terminal lives as a Windows executable.
MacOS is really a subpar development experience to me and it's plagued with issues, from very subpar docker support and performance to it's far from flawless experience on many languages I use regularly (e.g. Haskell) that are far from the Linux standard.
I love it as a notebook though, great hardware and battery life, but I'm at home most of the days.
Aside from that, the window management in macOS leaves a lot to be desired still without third party tools, and even with them it's not fantastic.
Don't get me wrong, I love my macbook pro, but bugs & privacy issues aside with Windows, I'd prefer to just use it on my macbook's hardware. I've been full time on macOS since the M1 air and I still can't grok the app v. window model macOS uses. I'm sure it made sense when workflows were centered around documents, but they aren't anymore, and over half the apps are just browsers. I prefer each instance to be standalone like Windows and Linux do it.
Then again, I'm not a dev, I'm an IT manager. My day to day involves multiple browser windows each with many tabs, spreadsheets, meetings, & notetaking on my iPad, etc. macOS's workflow of "focus on one or two "apps" at a time" doesn't work for me. I'll stand by my statement that Windows is still the king of "general business productivity."
2025 is the year I finally removed Windows entirely from my life, thanks to SteamOS and Bazzite. It'd been solely for gaming for 25ish years, for me, having been (in various versions) my primary desktop OS for another sevenish years or so before that (3.1 was my first, and before that, MS-DOS) and now it's for... nothing. I truly have no use for it whatsoever.
[^1]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/17510
[^2]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-...
I daily drive a couple Macs and enjoy them but I can't help but notice they seem slower in the terminal than the alternatives. Can't get any kind of discussion on /r/mac as it's just 'Apple silicon is fast!'
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hobs•1h ago
Otherwise click the top left icon, go to settings, uncheck QuickEdit.
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