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"Oh, thank God, the nightmare is over." The nightmare for me has been over in the mid-nineties, when I discovered Unix through Linux. There's no way I'll ever

"Oh, thank God, the nightmare is over." The nightmare for me has been over in the mid-nineties, when I discovered Unix through Linux. There's no way I'll ever be going back to working on Windows. I'd rather go work as a plumber or a truck driver (not that there's anything wrong with that) then have to work on Windows ever again. C# / F# might be interesting, but using any Windows as my OS is a big no-no. Never this nightmare again. And, nearly 20 years later, the great thing is that a lot of devs previously working on Windows are now working on OS X (anybody disputing that trend is a fool). Major win for Unix with both Linux and OS X. Not to mention all the devices running either iOS or Linux / Android. The nightmare is over: Windows shall never be the OS powering all these servers and devices out there and hence .Net shall never be the dominant platform. It's not that .NET has its warts (it does), it's that Windows has its ugly warts and I'll never ever be using that inferior OS ever again and I'll never ever again will be forced to deploy on an Microsoft stack. In the mid-nineties I considered quitting IT. And Linux saved me. And now OS X. Thanks.

CamperBob2 14y ago
In other news, the mid-nineties were a long time ago.
davesims 14y ago
I wouldn't go this far myself, but I deeply sympathize. I developed an inordinate level of familiarity with the Windows ecosystem for 10 years. I could tell you which registry keys did what for which COM components <shudder/>. Then I rebooted my technical self into Mac/Linux/Ruby and would have to scream into a pillow for 20 minutes before I'd be able to open up a windows command line again. Although I did do a bit of PowerShell when it came out and -- wait for it -- it was actually pretty nice. But still, the overall OS is such an odd beast in retrospect.
CodeCube 14y ago
Well, you can write C# without having to develop on windows through the Mono framework, and Xamarin's products - http://xamarin.com/ http://xamarin.com/ These days, you can be a C# developer without having to do an ounce of "Microsoft Stack" programming if you didn't want to.

CamperBob2 14y ago

In other news, the mid-nineties were a long time ago.

davesims 14y ago

I wouldn't go this far myself, but I deeply sympathize. I developed an inordinate level of familiarity with the Windows ecosystem for 10 years. I could tell you which registry keys did what for which COM components <shudder/>. Then I rebooted my technical self into Mac/Linux/Ruby and would have to scream into a pillow for 20 minutes before I'd be able to open up a windows command line again. Although I did do a bit of PowerShell when it came out and -- wait for it -- it was actually pretty nice. But still, the overall OS is such an odd beast in retrospect.

CodeCube 14y ago

Well, you can write C# without having to develop on windows through the Mono framework, and Xamarin's products - http://xamarin.com/ http://xamarin.com/ These days, you can be a C# developer without having to do an ounce of "Microsoft Stack" programming if you didn't want to.