My problem with development on windows hasn't been the OS itself, but the fact that companies that prescribe an OS for your development also tend to prescribe a

My problem with development on windows hasn't been the OS itself, but the fact that companies that prescribe an OS for your development also tend to prescribe a set of tools, an IDE, a browser type + version, have the configuration of your PC locked down, and the corporate virus scanner dialed up to 11. I can't work on a workstation where I can't choose that editor I'm so used to that I don't have to think about 'how', only about 'what'. I can't stand the latency caused by having the virus scanner run on access, create, change and write of every file, which makes an incremental build laggy and a full build impractically slow. I can't stand working on a workstation where I only have write access to c:\temp and a network drive, complete with more latency and flakiness. My current employer lets us choose, but the admin told me if it's something other than Windows, Linux or OSX, don't expect support from us.