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Honestly the best situation for someone like this is to buy a nice $800 Windows machine and do your development in a Linux VM. For years now developers not in t
by whynotminot 8y ago
Honestly the best situation for someone like this is to buy a nice $800 Windows machine and do your development in a Linux VM. For years now developers not in the Mac ecosystem have used this approach.
I prefer developing on Mac myself, but have used the other approach too with good success. It works, just maybe not as seamlessly.
- dmcginty 8y agoIn the post they specifically say they can't use Linux due to legal reasons. I imagine this would apply to a VM, also.
- whynotminot 8y agoThey were talking about editing documents that require licensed / non-open source software, no? Not the actual development? Edit your docs in windows, write your code on the Linux VM.
- justwalt 8y agoWhy not run Linux with Windows in the VM? Is there a reason?
- whynotminot 8y agoPotato potato. For instance for my current dev station I have a Mac and whenever I need Windows for something I use a Windows VM. It works pretty well for me. The bottom line is that the guy needs cheap hardware that allows for a modern dev environment and also access to windows. Some flavor of linux + windows will check the boxes.
- gaius 8y agoEdit your docs in Windows, write your code with Visual Studio targeting WSL. It’s the future.
- whynotminot 8y ago... nothing about writing code in windows is the future.
- pjmlp 8y agoBeing a developer doesn't mean programming UNIX software.