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At my workplace, it's about 40% Windows, 40% MacOS, and 20% Linux. Those who use Windows generally use it to ssh and/or VNC into our general-purpose Linux compu
by nathanb 15y ago
At my workplace, it's about 40% Windows, 40% MacOS, and 20% Linux. Those who use Windows generally use it to ssh and/or VNC into our general-purpose Linux compute servers.
I personally have a Linux desktop as my main machine and a Linux netbook as my portable. I could see Google going the same way with its own employees, since the only things my netbook has to do is connect to the vpn and ssh to my desktop, where I connect to my existing screen session and keep going right where I left off. A Chromebook could do that sort of thing relatively easily.
- jmatt 15y agoWhat programs do the Windows devs use as a terminal? When I'm using my windows box I use Console 2 - which is great. But still doesn't compare to Mac OS X or Linux terminals. Of course using a Linux VM or VNCing into one is the easy solution but it's heavy weight in comparison to having a great terminal app :)
- heresy 15y agoThere is PowerShell (which I use) but if you thought cmd.exe was slow, its got nothing on PowerShell, which takes slow text rendering to a new level. On a Core i7 clocked at 3.5Ghz with SSD :) Getting home to work on a Linux terminal or Terminal.app is like heaven.
- nathanb 15y agoPuTTY seems to be the most common. [edit] Oh, wait, I guess you mean for a local terminal? I'm far too ignorant about Windows to know why a Windows user would even want a local terminal. All the Windows users I polled just log into Linux machines and do their work there.