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I would choose whatever everyone else on the team used. I want to be able to draw on the institutional knowledge of how to get around things. I once made the m

I would choose whatever everyone else on the team used. I want to be able to draw on the institutional knowledge of how to get around things. I once made the mistake of being the only Windows developer at a company and it rendered me 80% as productive as I was constantly running into errors that nobody else had overcome.

GianFabien 5y ago
My personal order of preferences is Linux - Mac OS - Windows. But as you have discovered it isn't just the OS, but also the corporate infrastructure that makes it far easier to go with the majority. When I work in Windows environments I just call IT support to fix problems. Rather that than me muck up something. If they do, then it's on them.
herbst 5y ago
That can also be the other way around. As Linux users I ended up in a mac only company and I was constantly struggling with the many quirks the OS was throwing at me, and relearning how to solve problems in a closed source space, which was kinda new and very frustrating for me. Maybe my productivity would have increased after a while. But for the first year I only feel hindered by my OS