You are senior dev because you understand the app and keeps everyone else from bricking it.
Thats your job in a nutshell

Your current job may pay the same for front and back. But the next promotion may favour back end and you end up missing it.
Also if the economy tank and its layoff time then the front end are in front of the line as they can easy be replaced.
On the other hand no company would lay off the back end guys that have a deep understanding of how all the strings tie together that keep the servers running.

Then again you got front end sorted, so go hard in back end and now your full stack. Full stack gets promoted to keep an eye on both front and back

@dmonkey
https://foldingathome.org/
There's the link.

Currently they have a large surpluss in computing supply as the world rallied behind them and linked up all the spare pc's

My rig currently only have 2 out of the 6 gpu's working. But thats a good thing since they have more capacity than they need and can expand the experiments that they run

Google linus teck tips storenator.

Using a single drive is a bad idea. Better to have a bunch in a raid setup

Unreal engine basically ignores folders. Everything needs to have a unique name and any duplicates gets a number added on.
You can refer to example car.1225
or the car class (all cars)

You can also refer to any object in relation to a proximity to another or if you can see it or if you pointing at it

Objects can have parent/child/sibling relations and can be changed on the go.

It support overlapping as well as colissions.

You can have your internal arrays and link to sql or any other outside data source.

You can have different servers doing different parts of the stufg and can move clients between them, or even have back end servers doing stuff the client cant see with another server acting as the middleman.

The uses are endless. You could drve a 3d printer with it if you really want or make a mobile app that coult remote controll a ship or anything inbetween.

So yea there are other options already out there..

Do you manually turn on your laptop?

@matwx well he said no because you asked like there was a choice in the matter.
next time just tell them you have to do clean slate because the code is just unsecure everywhere and theres no other option.
The boss will then just have to break it to the client

Sometimes its worth telling the boss exactly how much crap really is in that code. And sometimes cleaning up takes much more time than stating it over on a clean slate.

Clean slate is fun in that you set the quality standard.

The old stuff may be bloated by years of adding on, going clean slate can simplify it alot and often be more secure.

Its a risky step. But when starting up a project its worth looking if its worth working on it or if it would be better to burn it all and start over.

If you do successfully pull off a clean slate its majour + rep. But in the flip side if you nes it up its pretty much gg and go find new job..

But if the code is so bad that you dont want to poke at it. Then starting over is a real good option

@melezorus34 yes i do konw that and as per my previos post i did sugest using a windows based git on windows.
OP did not make it clear why he neede linux because both ilistrator and photoshop do run on windows. The only use of linux he specified was git. So thats why i sugested he use github desktop instead..

And if he needed linux for anythung else then it would be better to run actual linux on a seperate machine..

Do you need wsl for anything other than git?

Why not go with github desktop?

I run a personal hidden git with lfs and can still add people to work on it.

If you need both operating enviromrnts then Ideally its better to run seperate winfows only and linux only machines. Do the needed stuff on one. Push. Pull on other. Work. Push..
You should anyway keep work in progress on seperate branch, so this will fit in with that type of workflow.

I prefer to work the night shift from home. During the day Everyone wants you to do something and since you just sitting in front of the computer...
I at least on night shift i get work done and they leave me to sleeep in till 10 am.

5:49 am now. Done for the night.

@molaram
nah its unreal blueprints
That as easy to work with as joining the dots

@Wisecrack
NDA
...
Only thing i made in the past week thats not under a NDA is a card deck shuffeler in blueprints.
It builds a array for the deck. Have another array for in play,and another for returned.
Each card also have variables about its number,its suit. If its royals or not. And its color as well as its value in blackjack.

It started off as a quick blackjack setup. But i ended up making a modular deck that can be used for any card game. Also have a bunch of extra functions that keeptrack of where a card goes and have the deck only on server and only the exposed cards get replicated to all and player also only recieve his own hand and the rest is all server. I did it this way so even if someone cracks thr local database then there still are no way to know what the next card will be unless its actually drawn. Made it secure just in case they want to monatize it someday.

So I'll make it with blackjack and with poker and then release it to unreals marketplace

@SomeNone its like when you look at a page of complex code. Its all there to look at. Some will see it for what it is. Others will frown and will not get it. You could tell them to google it, but no matter how many times they do. Chances are they just will not be able to join the dots if they dont realize the dots is there

@SomeNone google it.