Ask HN: How many of you use Windows as primary OS?

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Post by nedzadk » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 9:37 PM UTC

How many of you use Windows [any version] for web development?

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Post by matponta » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 10:12 PM UTC

OSX here, and Ubuntu at work...

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Post by bramgn » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 10:23 PM UTC

Fedora at home, Fedora at work

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Post by zachlatta » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 10:38 PM UTC

Debian at home, OS X at work.

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Post by singold » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 10:51 PM UTC

Used Win all my life, and for something like 5 years for web dev (not really serious web dev, but getting a technical degree on it).

I was thinking on moving to Ubuntu because I like the Python/Django stack and it was more difficult on Windows. Then I bought my new laptop that came with win8 preinstalled.

It got me kicked out of windows... Now I'm a happy Ubuntu user at home, at work, Win XP

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Post by aitoehigie » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 10:59 PM UTC

windows at work, ubuntu in a VM on windows at home for certain reasons

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Post by esw » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 10:59 PM UTC

I do, but only because I'm doing primarily .NET stuff.

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Post by Strategist » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 11:02 PM UTC

I uninstalled that piece of crap months ago!

Ok it isn't "that" bad, at times Windows is pretty unbearable.

As of 10 months ago, I totally wiped the hard drive, and installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu on there. I've no reason at all to go back to Windows, as Ubuntu handles everything I need done, and much better too.

I only have Win7 installed on another computer for my gaming needs. Hopefully with Valve getting on board with Linux, we can eventually scrap Windows altogether.

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Post by krapp » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 11:03 PM UTC

I do, but mostly because I have to have Adobe and Visual Studio running.

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Post by weef » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 11:32 PM UTC

I do and always have - currently have Windows 7 on my desktop, Windows 8 on a new laptop (had to buy Start8 to get the start menu back to avoid that metro crap). I develop websites in .NET (ASP.NET webforms and MVC) for enterprises. While I'm typing this I'm repairing my VS install because the Resharper keyboard mapping isn't working on this Windows 8 laptop for whatever reason. I guess I should be used to this time wasting stuff by now but I'm not...