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Does anyone else find these sort of articles strange? "Windows on the Desktop as a Developer" feels like the unique/odd case to me.

Perhaps I'm just getting old, or I'm stuck in a specific social group?

I don't mean to belittle the author at all, Linux just feels like an absolute default to me nowadays for a developer, in the late 90s that may not have been the case, sure.

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I use Linux as my daily driver, and I would agree that unlike the late 90's, it's a fully viable option, for sure. Absolute default for everyone, though? Doesn't seem like it. Not sure if that's what you were saying or not, but Windows is definitely still the frontrunner by pure usage.

  Windows: 47.5%
  Mac OS: 26.8%
  Linux-based: 25.6%
  BSD: 0.1%

From the 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...

There's a large amount of developers making shitty enterprise tools on Windows. Usually done with the whole VS/C# stack. Anyone making anything for the web or doing anything cross platform is likely using MacOS or Linux.

Just loved your attitude. /s

I worked with plenty of Linux developers, and pretty much any piece of Bash scripts was full of remote code execution vulnerabilities. That strange love with shell scripts is so common among majority of *nixoids, it is impressive you call enterprise tools shitty in comparison.

There's a massive market for one-off custom Windows apps fulfilled by short term contractors and consultancy firms or in-house programmers. It's a thing.

Also, most software is deficient in some way. Software is hard.

Edit - also Linux hasn't really been the market for apps like that (not saying there's not shitty apps written for Linux though). There is now a janky app market for iOS (tablets) and Android as well though. I've seen lots of custom tablet apps for small businesses that are complete shit. It's not just Windows, Windows just happens to be the de-facto enterprise OS and thus attracts that scene.

Well, not everyone is destined to work on AWS. Somebody actually has to make use of the larger project for a mom&pop stores, e.g. make small tools.

Bad codes and developers are found in both Windows and Linux.

Yes! I was hoping the point will strike parent harder in the likely case he did his part of shell scripting.

You are stuck in an echo chamber. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#development-e...

Realistically your "PC" is just a way to get a terminal on which ever system your developing - the only downside is you wont have easy access to office/outlook. Wat MS should do is just ship a proper x server with widows

If your a singleton developer is not so much of a problem going 100% Linux - working in the enterprise a lot of your actual work is going to be wrighting text documents and not code.

And dude do your self a favor and get a proper mech key board - your asking for RSI in later life

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