Counter-argument: it could be risky to dev on and deploy to a single monoculture.
But empirically, I've been developing on macOS (etc) and Linux (often simultaneously), and deploying to Linux (Debian, RHEL/AL), Solaris (etc), and FreeBSD ... for more than 20 years.
Aside from package management tooling differences, package naming, and package content splits (e.g. pkg vs pkg-dev) -- all of which are equally inconsistent between Linux distros -- I cannot recall a single issue caused by this heterogeneity.
In the past I did a lot of successful work on iOS apps from a Windows system, thanks to Xamarin and a mac sitting on a shelf, acting as the remote system.
Also, please, remember what "cross compilation" mean.
Wanted this to exist for so long. I’ve started learning Swift to build an app to solve this. Then I discovered HammerSpoon[1] and since I use a HammerSpoon lua script to adjust the windows layout for my different setups:
1. Laptop only mode
2. At home my MacBook screen is closed and connected to 2 external monitors
3. At work my MacBook screen is open and connected to 1 external monitor
The script detects the connected screen UUID and applies the appropriate layout
It's a little baffling how MacOS hasn't been able to get this to work. If a Matrox TripleHead2Go could hit a high enough resolution for multiple monitors it might be a possibility.
It did improve with a few tweaks but every so often it forgets.
First I thought it was a Macbook Pro thing. But a Mac Studio, with 3 separate monitors plugged into it, was just as confused.
I'm not sure how Windows and Ubuntu can handle it just fine from my experience.
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1. Extensions - almost anyone have some kind of extension installed, and Chrome absolutely wins in that category. that prevents people from switching over to Firefox. Personally I know people that switched to Firefox only after I showed them the extensions they us or an alternative exists on Firefox.
2. Advertisement - Google have a lot more advertising resources than Mozilla. For example, every new Android phone with Google Play Services ships with Google products already installed including Chrome (sometimes as the only browser).
It's not unfounded to think that most people will use the same browser they're using in their smartphone.
> Extensions - almost anyone have some kind of extension installed, and Chrome absolutely wins in that category
I have a bunch of extensions installed on Firefox and don’t use Chrome. What are the Chrome-only extensions I’m missing that means Chrome “absolutely wins”?
This is where Google will shoot itself in the foot trying to kill ad blockers and 3rd party extensions like paywall removers. Firefox is more than good enough, and if you take away uBlock and others that have a loyal following users are going to bail.
The fact that I can run extensions on Firefox for Android is a huge enough win that it's my default system browser.
Keeping in mind that different users have different priorities, I still don't understand why Firefox doesn't make market this as their number one distinguishing feature.
Google amplifies these security conferences where Chrome comes out as a more secure browser than the rest, this leads a lot of corporate IT to enforce Chrome as the default browser on work PC. Some people completely switched their home browser to Chrome just because they like to use one browser at home and work!
I think people get annoyed when the temp files don't get deleted after the process is complete and the files continue to accumulate forever.
I spent the better part of yesterday trying to figure out why ODBC drivers for an older version of MS Dynamics NAV would randomly cause crashes starting 5am on 12/31/2018. Looking at the queries, we noticed that only queries with ORDER BY clause failed with an error about not having enough swap space. The drive had plenty of storage so we weren't sure. Only when we looked into the Temp folder for SWP*.tmp files did we see an interesting result: 65535 file(s).
Apparently the driver created swap files in the temp folder to sort the results of ORDER BY. But sometimes it failed and left the temp files orphaned. The name of each temp file was SWP[int 1-65535].tmp. It appeared that at 5am it created the max 16-bit int swap file and from that point on, every number it tried already existed, throwing the 'not enough space' error. A simple delete fixed the issue.
The path we took to get to the solution was riddled with panic-fueled nightmares. DB corruption on the last day of the year when Finance was running their year-end reports would have been a terrible way to usher in 2019. We ran all the tools on the DB and its backups but nothing seemed to isolate the cause until we looked at the Temp folder on a whim.
Apologies for the long rant but just wanted to highlight a real-world (and still painfully sore) example of annoyance from temp files.
People get upset over all sorts of things. Look at this thread [1] where everybody without a clue gets involved to solve the mystery of an NTFS ADS called :WofCompressedData.
Depends on whether that temporary file gets properly cleaned up or not. A myriad of temporary files with more showing up every day could be a significant disk hog, especially for an enterprise with thousands of affected employees.
Hundreds of tutorials and books have taught people to save example files into the temp folder going back to the DOS days leading them to believe it’s a directory they own and control rather than one shared by anybody.
Also I suspect badly designed cleanup utilities would complain about SQLite files that cannot be deleted because they’re in use leading to web searches.
I actually worked in desktop support a couple of years ago but I never got anything about temp files, most of the time it was the usual stuff (Internet stopped working, computer won't boot, etc.)
The only thing that could go wrong with this kind of switch is software compatibility, and as long as this chips could run x86 software properly and will have same or better performance, I don't mind.
