DEV Community

Cover image for Best operating system for programmer or tester - part 1
Alex Pushkarev
Alex Pushkarev

Posted on

Best operating system for programmer or tester - part 1

When you only start your way to becoming professional programmer or tester you might not know which operating system you should use.

Would it make sense to "follow the mob" and use Apple laptops, as other "cool developers" do?

Or perhaps you should do it hard way and try Linux instead?

Or maybe Windows isn't that bad after all?

In today's video I am exploring all pros and cons of Windows, but there're going to be videos on Mac and Linux as well

https://youtu.be/YqoAi5XvTtw

Top comments (4)

Collapse
 
jmfayard profile image
Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

Windows share on desktop computers is only 75% nowadays?
I am old enough to have lived am eternity where the answer was "almost all of it". Mac was an undangerous niche and the "year of desktop Linux" never came.

Collapse
 
dadyasasha profile image
Alex Pushkarev

That's the current situation with the market Image description

Windows is still by far the most popular.

Collapse
 
jmfayard profile image
Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

I don't doubt that, just that when I was young it was more like 96% :)

Thread Thread
 
dadyasasha profile image
Alex Pushkarev

Yes, it was like that some time ago. Not any more though