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I'll be that deluded person here: we completely switched to using Linux at my workplace and never touched windows 10. Granted we're a software dev shop, but fro

• AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
  Clearly you're not developing software for Windows, though. I'm guessing you're a small web startup or something. You don't have to deal with the workflows of corporate offices that have existed for 20 years.
  • invokestatic 8y ago
    Small startup here as well, but we target 95% Windows (going back all the way to XP) and we recently transitioned to a WSL Clang-based toolchain (linking against MSVCRT) so it would be feasible for someone to use a pure Linux environment for serious Windows development, although inconvenient because it is untestable.
    • LoSboccacc 8y ago
      If you target xp let them test under wine, win-win for everyon
      • Narishma 8y ago
        And when you run into bugs, how do you know if it's an issue with your software, Wine or Windows XP?
        • Dylan16807 8y ago
          The same way you normally tell if a bug is in the program or OS, except now it's easier because you can swap out half the equation for comparison?
  • ekianjo 8y ago
    > Clearly you're not developing software for Windows, that's a great point, though. You can live in a world where you can have a software business that does not depend on Windows. 20 years ago, that was pretty much a dream.
    • LoSboccacc 8y ago
      uh, didn’t most banking environment ran on as/400 and derivatives back then?
    • AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
      Software businesses are a pretty small cross section of businesses though.