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I'm having a hard time thinking of a reason to have a preference - let alone a strong preference. I'm spending most of the time typing into a text editor, where
by benched 13y ago
I'm having a hard time thinking of a reason to have a preference - let alone a strong preference. I'm spending most of the time typing into a text editor, where my experience depends on the editor, not on the OS. Another chunk of time is on the web reading documentation and StackOverflow - that's the same on any OS. Then testing in the browser - same deal. The last little bit is config work in the web server. Now here, I could understand having a preference for IIS or Apache, but that's not the OS either. There are basically only 2 command lines between these three OSes. Having used both, I find them mostly equivalent for basic work. I'm sure a real power user could make a better argument for why bash or cmd or powershell is better for one thing or another, but nothing's stopping me from getting my work done in any of these. A few years ago, I might have had to prefer Windows, because that was all I knew. Now, after being forced to do a lot of development on OSX and finding it to be all the same, it's hard to think of having a preference.
- cheald 13y agoIt sounds like you're not really doing a lot with serverside code execution - that's where most of the difference comes into play. Configuring different applications environments is frequently where you're going to run into issues. If you're just writing HTML/CSS/JS, I don't imagine that the platform makes very much of a difference at all.