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It also makes sense if you want to keep developers from switching to Linux desktops. I for one, think that most developers, especially young ones, would be far

It also makes sense if you want to keep developers from switching to Linux desktops. I for one, think that most developers, especially young ones, would be far better off migrating fully to Linux.

tsimionescu 6y ago
Most developers work in huge companies that give them a workstation with Windows pre-installed, mostly because Windows is much easier to administrate at scale.
- zarkov99 6y ago
  Is that really true if the users are experienced in Linux?
  - sys_64738 6y ago
    It is as you just re-image a laptop if it goes awry. AD is everywhere so that's how you can control and lockdown. I can't even install non-approved apps on my developer laptop running Windows. I can't install approved apps either without the correct authority from three layers of management.
  - GordonS 6y ago
    Yes. Huge companies don't care one iota what you are experienced with - everyone gets a standard-build Windows machine (loaded with antivirus, endpoint protection and DLP, which combined use half of your CPU), or if you build for iOS, a standard-build MacOS machine. Linux is huge in the server space in big business, and completely insignificant in the desktop space.
coldtea 6y ago
>It also makes sense if you want to keep developers from switching to Linux desktops Well, the huge majority of developers didn't switch en masse to Linux desktops for like 3 decades. The Linux desktop stats were still meagre, even right before WSL. It wasn't about to happen now... This is more about making existing Windows using devs life easier for working with Docker / etc to develop for the Linux-driven server side (which has been a think for 2+ decades), than about preventing them from switching to Linux. If anything, this is the opposite. It helps introduce the 95% of Windows using devs to Linux and UNIX userland while they're still on Windows -- which could serve as a gateway to using Linux directly.
ThrowawayR2 6y ago
Nobody was switching to Linux on the desktop; its desktop market share has remained steadily negligible for the past twenty years. I'll wager this is aimed at unseating Mac as the UNIX-alike development environment of choice.

It also makes sense if you want to keep developers from switching to Linux desktops. I for one, think that most developers, especially young ones, would be far better off migrating fully to Linux.

tsimionescu 6y ago

Most developers work in huge companies that give them a workstation with Windows pre-installed, mostly because Windows is much easier to administrate at scale.

zarkov99 6y ago
Is that really true if the users are experienced in Linux?
- sys_64738 6y ago
  It is as you just re-image a laptop if it goes awry. AD is everywhere so that's how you can control and lockdown. I can't even install non-approved apps on my developer laptop running Windows. I can't install approved apps either without the correct authority from three layers of management.
- GordonS 6y ago
  Yes. Huge companies don't care one iota what you are experienced with - everyone gets a standard-build Windows machine (loaded with antivirus, endpoint protection and DLP, which combined use half of your CPU), or if you build for iOS, a standard-build MacOS machine. Linux is huge in the server space in big business, and completely insignificant in the desktop space.

coldtea 6y ago

>It also makes sense if you want to keep developers from switching to Linux desktops Well, the huge majority of developers didn't switch en masse to Linux desktops for like 3 decades. The Linux desktop stats were still meagre, even right before WSL. It wasn't about to happen now... This is more about making existing Windows using devs life easier for working with Docker / etc to develop for the Linux-driven server side (which has been a think for 2+ decades), than about preventing them from switching to Linux. If anything, this is the opposite. It helps introduce the 95% of Windows using devs to Linux and UNIX userland while they're still on Windows -- which could serve as a gateway to using Linux directly.

ThrowawayR2 6y ago

Nobody was switching to Linux on the desktop; its desktop market share has remained steadily negligible for the past twenty years. I'll wager this is aimed at unseating Mac as the UNIX-alike development environment of choice.