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I had a friend interview at "Big Nameless Corp" a few years ago. He said when he saw that the engineers interviewing him all had Windows laptops, he knew immedi

I had a friend interview at "Big Nameless Corp" a few years ago. He said when he saw that the engineers interviewing him all had Windows laptops, he knew immediately it wasn't an engineer-friendly culture. I always thought that was funny.

prepend 4y ago
I try to stay pretty open, but I work on an org with a lot of windows developers. It’s kind of interesting how it’s a totally separate world and the windows devs have their own equivalents to dot files and stuff. The problem is when they insisted that everyone else must use windows and Mac and Linux machines weren’t allowed.
Tijdreiziger 4y ago
I don’t really see how that’s relevant given that WSL exists.
- mindentropy 4y ago
  WSL in Windows 10 is almost useless. Also for embedded and people working on kernels etc it is really painful.
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- 1123581321 4y ago
  WSL is a business checkmark used to keep engineers quiet. It's not a pleasant surrounding ecosystem and the implementation isn't as high fidelity is the real thing.
  - mindentropy 4y ago
    Exactly. It is painful in Windows 10. Nothing beats running natively.
FpUser 4y ago
>"He said when he saw that the engineers interviewing him all had Windows laptops, he knew immediately it wasn't an engineer-friendly culture." "Friend" should have his head examined. This kind of snobbery attitude does not do any good
- mindentropy 4y ago
  It is not snobbery and you are taking it the wrong way. It is more about having plenty of mature developer tools at your finger tips to get the job done with lots of automation. Also having source of everything allows you to check how something is architected and designed and also improves your own code. It is very painful to work on Windows laptops when you don't have access to proper dev tools which is the case in most of the corporate setups where they want to uniformity of images to make administration easy.
hn_go_brrrrr 4y ago
I work at a BigCorp. A sister team develops client software for Windows. Can you guess what kind of laptops the engineers have?

prepend 4y ago

I try to stay pretty open, but I work on an org with a lot of windows developers. It’s kind of interesting how it’s a totally separate world and the windows devs have their own equivalents to dot files and stuff. The problem is when they insisted that everyone else must use windows and Mac and Linux machines weren’t allowed.

Tijdreiziger 4y ago

I don’t really see how that’s relevant given that WSL exists.

mindentropy 4y ago
WSL in Windows 10 is almost useless. Also for embedded and people working on kernels etc it is really painful.
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1123581321 4y ago
WSL is a business checkmark used to keep engineers quiet. It's not a pleasant surrounding ecosystem and the implementation isn't as high fidelity is the real thing.
- mindentropy 4y ago
  Exactly. It is painful in Windows 10. Nothing beats running natively.

FpUser 4y ago

>"He said when he saw that the engineers interviewing him all had Windows laptops, he knew immediately it wasn't an engineer-friendly culture." "Friend" should have his head examined. This kind of snobbery attitude does not do any good

mindentropy 4y ago
It is not snobbery and you are taking it the wrong way. It is more about having plenty of mature developer tools at your finger tips to get the job done with lots of automation. Also having source of everything allows you to check how something is architected and designed and also improves your own code. It is very painful to work on Windows laptops when you don't have access to proper dev tools which is the case in most of the corporate setups where they want to uniformity of images to make administration easy.

hn_go_brrrrr 4y ago

I work at a BigCorp. A sister team develops client software for Windows. Can you guess what kind of laptops the engineers have?