A switch from linux to windows

Currently I am using Magit in Emacs. It's amazing. I can do all the committing/pushing/pulling, creation/switching of branches and any other git related task 5 times faster than someone would in Github Desktop.

BUT, because everyone is using this and it's kind of a standard - I want to get used to using it as well.

Yes, when working by myself, freelancing and such, I could use Magit, but if I switch to Windows - this becomes trickier since Magit is quite slow on Windows. Another reason to try our Github Desktop.

Good news - I will continue to use Linux in everyday work when administering services, hosting and launching my freelance products, etc. So that skill will remain.

I have also noticed that I did not really get a valuable experience from using Linux on a daily basis, since nothing breaks and when I find a setup that I like(which took a lot of time and probably is where the experience really came from) - I rarely tweak anything.

So having a linux machine at home was cool just at the beginning, when I decided to switch from Windows to Linux thinking I will learn a lot. I did learn a lot, that was a good move during my first days of learning to program/getting into tech, but now I can without any worries switch back to Windows.

I get used to working in one type of terminal while in on my Linux machine at home, it works different when I am on Windows machine connected through putty.. Since I am already using putty at work daily, I better use it in my free time when doing personal projects as well.. Putty it is. Learn the ins and outs, advantages/disadvantages/quirks of it.

I want to get to know to docker better. Putting my few attempts to make a project with it aside, I am not a docker professional in any way. But since I can see myself working in Windows ecosystem for the next few or more years, I would like to learn docker in a windows environment, using Docker desktop and so on and not a linux version of it.

My plan is o dockerise everything on my Windows machine.

After working with Linux servers in my current job I have noticed that it's quite useful if you know some vim commands.. Instead of using the arrow keys - you can navigate through text with the keyboard - quite rewarding to know them.

So this switch to Windows will most likely mean that I will be using Emacs less. Perhaps I will not use it at all at the beginning, to get to used to vim bindings in my future code editors (VsCode, Pycharm?).

Learning Emacs bindings also pays off since you can use the same bindings in Linux terminals. So that knowledge will not go to waste.

When I will be a freelancer - I for sure will? come back to using Emacs for time planning. Org-agenda has a huge potential and is great for managing your tasks in GTD manner. Using Orgzly app on android even helps to do that on your mobile phone.

BUT.

For the sake of learning the tools that everyone uses in this industry, let's learn Jira and the Agile way of working. For the last few months in my current workplace I have been admiring the way our Scrum master arranges the meetings, reviews, sprint/PI plannings, daily reviews, retro sessions and so on.. It feels really great to work in a TEAM with agile rather than by yourself in org-agenda.

Of course you can your tasks well planned in org-agenda, but it's only for you..

I keep putting everything in it, form notes, to reminders to dailies to tasks.. It becomes quite a mess and hard to focus/know what to do next. With Agile, I feel that I am learning good practices of planning ptech related tasks.

When I will be working a my own team, possibly of few people or close programmer friends - knowing Jira and agile will come in handy way more than knowing how to use org-agenda..

Again, I have been taking notes in org-mode for almost a few years now. I know how/when I should use org-roam, plain-org-wiki, how to archive notes and so on… but again, they are for me only. These notes are quick to write and probably will last FOREVER, since these are simply text files, but whenever I need to add images to them, whenever I need to share them with others(yes, they are exportable, but..) or whenever a TEAM needs to collaborate on your notes - that is where the problems begin.

Emacs and org is kind of for one person army.. for one developer.. not for a team to use.. and since I want to learn/be part of a team, I must use the tools that are used by teams. In this case - confluence.

Not going to lie, I miss Emacs bindings when writing a confluence document, but that is a small price to pay, an inconvenience I have to go through in order to blend with the masses that use confluence for documenting all sort of tutorials, writing tech documentation and so on. At the end of the way it's not THAT bad of a tool.

As I mentioned earlier. A time will come when I will be freelancing, building tech solutions for clients from all around the world from my home cabin in the forest, next to a mountains and a river. At that time I will already have time planning/documentation/speaking my client/other programmer/developer language and using their tools. That is much better in my opinion than using a software that is 20 years older than me and.

I want to use more of that. Now have a membership of it that me and my family uses - but I am not using to the full potential, since I am on a Linux machine. I used Dropbox instead. Will voluntarily give my money to Microsoft on this one just because everyone does..

As I am working on Windows machine daily - I get used to a certain way of working. Then I come back home to a linux machine - slightly another way of working. Takes time to adjust. Better make the both environments as similar as possible.