but you're right that there is a lot more dev attention toward hardware compatibility with Windows since that's the dominant operating system in the market

I have an array of 10 drives, maybe ill take one out and try installing that

I am unhappy with microsoft 10's forced updates and data policy

Now, limiting yourself to open source drivers? Probably not. Nvidia's proprietary drivers have been good for me, but nouveau (the open-source alternative) isn't nearly as good

I used Mate under ubuntu, loved it but couldn't run DX9 stuff with Wine so I had to duel boot and somehow I just always seem to wind up in Winblows

I play some older games that use DX9

Can i install Visual Studio 2019 on that

I know theres a Mac version

https://appdb.winehq.org/

VS2019 might have an entry in the Wine AppDB

then again, you might have issues compiling C# code. I don't know if there are toolchains to compile to PE format that work in Wine

although there probably should be

Unfortunately not

but 2017 is supported

isn't VSCode a fork of Visual Studio?

no no

VSCode isnt an IDE really

its more of a light text editor

that has IDE features tacked in

Whats the latest, I think they were up to .net core 3 on linux

last I checked

.net core 2.26 is the latest that is all supported by the stuff i need

But .net core 3 is stable and out

I've only heard of VSCode. Never used it or explored it much further

my IDE is vim 😎

VSCode is really nice but can't hold a candle to the VS IDE

(or Atom when I'm lazy)

VS Code right, Visual Studio 2019 left

I use VSCode to edit my js stuff

or... vscode middle left lol

Visual Studio 2019 is like... 30 GB and VS code is like 200MB lol

I havnt tried the 2019 one

@FitnessByHeatherHeyer the apostraphail in your name frustrates me to no end. good job!

I still have 2017

I am most used to 2017 but 2019 allows for .net core 3.0 support fully

I like the UI changes they made in 2019. they smashed up the top bar a bit to give more code space

unless you care about checking out the latest latest .net core 3.0 stuff and also get the latest C# 8.0 language features then i wouldnt worry bout upgrading

null coalesce assignement ??= operator is so cool in c#8

that does what

the top is syntax sugar for the bottom

which is basically, youve got a _requestBuilder field thats not initialized