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Discussion on: Work machines for the new year

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Kasey Speakman • Edited

Hmm, I use Windows 10 as a dev. Although I dev primarily on .NET so it seems pretty natural. For front-end stuff, I have Node and Git installed (for NPM, webpack, etc). I haven't had any problems that I recall, but I don't depend on a windows terminal for much aside from running node commands and an occasional git command. In full VS 2017, 90% of the git operations I need are part of the UI. And maybe 60% for VS Code.

I did install Ubuntu on Windows 10 to get a full linux environment. In recent updates of Windows 10 it and a few other distros are literally just apps on the Windows app store. (And this is the only app I have ever installed from there.)

Edit: I have also been a linux and mac user in the past, and I'm quite familiar with them. Windows just makes the most sense for my current work environment. Especially since we have Windows desktop apps to interface with hardware and other windows-based vendor software. It would be difficult to dev it from other platforms. Plus VS2017 is just a great IDE and is Windows-only.