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  • And what would that equality entail? Reference equality? You have .Equals for that for every single class. Structural equality? You can write an operator for that (but yeah, there’s no structural equality out of the box for classes, that I have to concede).

    Hell, in newer C# (~3-4 versions back, I don’t recall off the top of my head) you have records, which actually do support that out of the box, with a lot more concise syntax to boot.

    As fir that being Java all over again: it started off as a Java clone, and later on moved in its own direction. It has similar-ish syntax, but that’s the extent of it.






  • Recent Linux convert here. Had some small background with it due to use at work (through WSL, unfortunately 😅). When Windows became too overbearing and intrusive for my own taste, decided to take a plunge and created a dual-boot setup with Bazzite (of course on my private machine). It was honestly refreshing to see stuff run with the same (or sometimes even better) performance.

    This short anecdote now leads me to the conclusion; is it as good as we think it is?

    Imo: hell fuckin’ yeah. It gets the job done and respects me as an end-user (with the trade-off of “some manual work might be required”).

    Also, as a side-note: I live in the EU; I grew tired with an overbearing, salesman/rapist-like mentality of MS (and Windows, by extension) while reaping benefits of some modicum of privacy regulations. I cannot even begin to fathom how fucked the situation is where ppl don’t have these protections to rely on.







  • Alphabetically by bands:

    The Agonist:

    • Prisoners
    • Orphans

    Alestorm:

    • Seventh Rum of the Seventh Rum
    • Sunset On The Golden Age
    • No Grave But The Sea

    Arch Enemy:

    • Deceivers
    • War Eternal
    • Rise of the Tyrant

    As I Lay Dying:

    • Shaped By Fire

    Avatar:

    • Dance Devil Dance
    • Hunter Gatherer
    • Hail the Apocalypse

    Godsmack:

    • The Oracle
    • Faceless

    Parasite Inc:

    • Dead And Alive
    • Cyan Night Dreams

    System Of A Down:

    • Steal This Album!
    • Mezmerize





  • Fellow .NET dev here, switched to Linux for side-gigs recently.

    In general, the experience is a lot better than Windows / WSL. Some general remarks on the setup (relevant mostly for Debian-based distros, so YMMV):

    • Rider / VSCode suggestion is spot on; go with the former if you have cash to spare and you’re fine with snaps, otherwise - DevKit can do DevKit things (with the only problem here being lack of .dcproj support in VSCode; can be ignored with proper integration test setup).
    • Containerization of DBMS: by all means, go for it if you have the resources to spare.
    • Possible gotchas:
      • If you’re going to use MS apt feed for .NET runtime / SDK, set up apt preferences to point to their feed for dotnet packages. Otherwise, you’re in for a bad time when running updates.
      • Docker: personally, I recommend Rancher Desktop for this purpose, as Docker Desktop on Windows left a bad taste in my mouth. If you’re fine with the latter, it’s up to your own preferences then.
      • Test containers: if you do use it with anything else than standard, bare-bones Docker setup, you’ll need a custom config; stumbled upon that the first time I tried running integration tests.