Going from Windows to Linux then back to windows sucks.

  • DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    My work allows RHEL, but it’s a specialized configuration that doesn’t get updated very often. I tried it for a while but it was so out of date that I couldn’t build half the tools I needed, so I ended up switching back to Windows. It was about 10-15 years ago when the C++ standard was undergoing a lot of changes, and the company-approved version of GCC was several years old and didn’t support any of the newest features.

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      2 days ago

      Can you get Distrobox running on it. If so, put whatever distro you want on Distrobox and build whatever tools you need in there (including a totally different GCC or Clang toolchain).