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I'm asking because I'm interested in return on experience for this kind of upgrades. We heard mostly of migrations for non-techies employees, not for developers

• lucb1e 12y ago
  You should ask some developer companies, I think they'd have no problem sharing this kind of information with non-competitors. I can only say that it depends on the workspace and the tools that people are used to. I've done internship in a place where the main components were done with MSSQL and ASP.NET, there of course everyone is tied to Visual Studio and used to the Windows workflow. I've also done work where I was hired partly because of my Linux experience. It was a pure development job (no infrastructure stuff) but it was still useful to have. All projects I do for myself, friends or family are done from Linux. Sometimes have to use proprietary blobs like Teamviewer to support someone with Apple Mail or something, but besides that I hardly ever touch anything non-free. And finally for my study I also use Linux exclusively. First semester we had some C# lessons and Mono just didn't cut it, and we got free Windows licenses so I had no legal grounds to refuse on, but after that I hardly touched my Windows VM. Not sure all of this is useful info, but at least for myself I can do just about everything with Linux (as long as no Microsoft components need to be used like C#) and I guess you could also put a developer team on it. The two issues I could imagine is support staff that needs extra training and whether the software that you use to work in teams is also available for Linux. For example MS Project is not something I've been able to find a replacement for, but there might be html5 options (Trello?).