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It's hard for Windows to realistically compete with Linux as a developer environment. GNU/Linux and userland software is made by developers for developers, and

It's hard for Windows to realistically compete with Linux as a developer environment. GNU/Linux and userland software is made by developers for developers, and a lot of it is open source. If you are a developer, on Linux sky is the limit. Everything can be played with. On Windows that's not the case. Many areas are off-limits and you don't get to see how they work, and you cannot change them if you need to. Then, Microsoft can sunset a project at any time, and that's final. In the open source world an orphaned project can always be forked or picked up by someone else.

romanovcode 9y ago
> It's hard for Windows to realistically compete with Linux as a developer environment. That's the whole point of WSL
- partycoder 9y ago
  The WSL is useful if you need Windows as a host system. That's not a universal need. Most of the software I use supports Linux. Then there's is Wine and finally virtualization. I haven't needed the latter in years.
pjmlp 9y ago
Only for developers that only care about writing CLI and web servers. For those of us that care about UI/UX, IDEs with nice graphical tooling, only macOS matches Windows, specially given the developer culture for such tooling.
- partycoder 9y ago
  That is a very pessimistic view. Many IDEs support Linux. There are tools with interface builders on Linux. GTK, Qt, Android, Mono, etc...
  - pjmlp 9y ago
    Yes there are, but as I mentioned the culture also matters, and the Linux culture worships CLI and window managers like xmonad, not graphical developer tools and UI/UX.
    - partycoder 9y ago
      I am pretty sure that xmonad, or tiling window managers in general, while popular are not the #1 in popularity on Linux so I will have to disagree with you again. You have many alternatives more featured than xmonad and I am very sure you know many of them already. Going forward please keep those views to yourself. There are many developers putting a lot of effort, in many cases volunteer effort, to advance Linux on the desktop... which is already far better than many people care to admit.

romanovcode 9y ago

> It's hard for Windows to realistically compete with Linux as a developer environment. That's the whole point of WSL

partycoder 9y ago
The WSL is useful if you need Windows as a host system. That's not a universal need. Most of the software I use supports Linux. Then there's is Wine and finally virtualization. I haven't needed the latter in years.

pjmlp 9y ago

Only for developers that only care about writing CLI and web servers. For those of us that care about UI/UX, IDEs with nice graphical tooling, only macOS matches Windows, specially given the developer culture for such tooling.

partycoder 9y ago
That is a very pessimistic view. Many IDEs support Linux. There are tools with interface builders on Linux. GTK, Qt, Android, Mono, etc...
- pjmlp 9y ago
  Yes there are, but as I mentioned the culture also matters, and the Linux culture worships CLI and window managers like xmonad, not graphical developer tools and UI/UX.
  - partycoder 9y ago
    I am pretty sure that xmonad, or tiling window managers in general, while popular are not the #1 in popularity on Linux so I will have to disagree with you again. You have many alternatives more featured than xmonad and I am very sure you know many of them already. Going forward please keep those views to yourself. There are many developers putting a lot of effort, in many cases volunteer effort, to advance Linux on the desktop... which is already far better than many people care to admit.