Comment by forrestthewoods
1 day ago
This thread feels so foreign to me. I use basic ass vanilla Windows terminal. It’s fine. I also use the vanilla built-in to VSCode terminal. It is also fine.
Terminals are such a small, unimportant part of my job I barely even think about them.
Yes, Windows users don't have time for such luxuries when they're constantly fighting a losing fight with an increasingly hostile OS. Playing whack-a-mole dismissing ads, dismissing Edge and reopening links in your preferred browser, waiting for React to render in the start menu, coping with the ever increasing theft of personal data, and on and on and on the list goes. The rest of the time is spent on working around Windows oddities that other developers using sensible OSes simply don't need to deal with. No wonder there's no time to think about anything else.
I also use Linux and Mac. And sometimes a little bit of Android.
Win11 Pro is also fine. I spend radically less time fighting Windows than I spend fighting Linux userspace disfunction.
Conversely, I spend about 60% of my working day in the terminal, with another 20% in Zed. Wild how much workflows differ, isn’t it?