Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse

1 · Sam · March 31, 2019, 11:44 p.m.
I made this tweet that got reasonably popular: We benchmarked how long it takes to run the Ruby test suite for Discourse across our various dev machines. I can not believe what a crazy tax I have paid over the years insisting on sticking with Windows, highlighted results mine. image.png824×706 73.7 KB https://twitter.com/samsaffron/status/1111511735851081728 This evoked a lot of extremely strong emotions from various people out there. Ranging from “Sam is a fool what kind of insane benchmark...