Not entirely sure if this fits here, but it’s development related
A review that deserves more stars than the thing it’s reviewing.
Yeah dev home is pretty much useless at this point.
Back when it just launched, they marketed it as it would introduce cool stuff to developers like, what I’m waiting for the most, git repositories Explorer integration. But all we have is a constantly crashing app and two extra widgets for the widget panel.
Dev drives are also cool but they’re the part of Windows anyway, no dev home needed.
If the widgets page wasn’t almost useless and filled with news stories I would actually use dev home for its widgets lol
Newest release preview builds added an option to turn all the news off, just sayin’
I haven’t downloaded it because I was tired of the weird bugs with file explorer, but even on stable there are weird bugs so it’s probably worth a try
What’s dissapointing about Dev Home is that it offers nothing of value to the average developer, let alone somebody start it.
Given the power of containerization and WSL2, you would expect it could create development environments for a given app, like creating a firmware for a microcontroller using Rust, or a backend using Typescript, and even bring common tools or toolchains. Instead, we get some widgets and that’s it.
It’s not a dev tool, it’s designed to force you to stay with the Windows environment by trying to regularise users to a proprietary intermediary management system.
regularise users to a proprietary intermediary management system.
I don’t understand what this means.
“Most favorable review” 🤣
That was my favorite part, their system tried so hard to find a highly rated review and that’s what it got instead
As a side note, I love Winget. It took them long enough to add it but it id so handy.
Yes! Why did it take them so long?
It was handy until I realised it installs to the user profile instead of system-wide. Reverted to chocolatey.