No way am I working on Windows.
Is primary OS a dealbreaker for you (when taking a new job)?
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Re: Is primary OS a dealbreaker for you (when taking a new job)?
#22It's not a dealbreaker. I'm forced to use Windows in my current position and I accepted it knowing that would be the case.
It is, however, a significant item in the "minus" column when I'm evaluating whether or not I'll accept a position.
Re: Is primary OS a dealbreaker for you (when taking a new job)?
#23For me? No.
I work somewhere with thin clients which log in to one OS, which is an OS I do not develop for. I end up remoting in from that OS to another one. It’s a bit clumsy. On some occasions I’ve been unable to do a thing easily and my manager has been receptive to “I can’t do this thing so I will either have to not do it or find a slower and clumsier way”. It doesn’t always get fixed, but I feel it’s understood.
My employer pays me so while I’m on the clock in the office I will use the OS and software they tell me to (not) use. It’s on them if my productivity is reduced because of informed decisions they make. I get paid whether or not I have to open a ticket and wait because I’m blocked on IT.
Ultimately, my direct line of management is much more important than any OS decision because good management will listen and understand the effects their decisions have and they won’t blame me for the effects of their decisions.
If my managers instruct me to develop containerised Java 6 SOAP microservices to run on Windows Kubernetes clusters in IBM cloud while using a Hannah Montana Linux dev environment over VNC from a SunOS workstation with an AZERTY keyboard and the monitor rotated 180 degrees then I will do it on company time. I’ll tell them what I think of it, though.
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#24Primary OS is a dealbreaker for me, companies should trust their employees to pick out the tools that are best from them.
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#25Not really, but my efficiency varies significantly between operating systems, and I have never held back my feedback to management, that if we were given right tools then we can deliver more.
And I never was afraid to push for it =)
I used to work in a big old insurance enterprise (with AS/400 mainframes as a backend) and when I joined 100% of engineers were given locked in Windows machines without admin access. Over time me and other engineers were able to influence the company to first give us ability to run linux on desktops and then even expanded to buying Macbooks to developers who wanted.
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#26Currently on macos because the servers we deploy to are linux. Used to work on windows and it was ok, as everything was done from the command line and the application was deployed from the CVS. Realistically I was not really using windows in any meaningful way. Just something to launch a shell from
It would be annoying to unlearn the macos keystrokes at this point though
Re: Is primary OS a dealbreaker for you (when taking a new job)?
#27For me? No. I work somewhere with thin clients which log in to one OS, which is an OS I do not develop for. I end up remoting in from that OS to another one. It’s a bit clumsy. On some occasions I’ve been unable to do a thing easily and my manager has been receptive to “I can’t do this thing so I will either have to not do it or find a slower and clumsier way”. It doesn’t always get fixed, but I feel it’s understood.…
Tell me you don’t have meaningful equity without telling me you don’t have meaningful equity.
This feels like peak “I just work here”.
Re: Is primary OS a dealbreaker for you (when taking a new job)?
#28I use the same setup for 15+ years which is i3 on Debian with some other tools like emacs, vim (yup, I use both!), vs code, chromium, Firefox and some other things. I have a private network install image which I update/upgrade and it gives me the same experience everywhere fast.
It would be dealbreaker if I cannot have this; theoretically this could run on win/Mac/lin exactly the same, but it does not, so yes, dealbreaker.
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#29Of course. macOS or nothing. I'd accept Linux but hard no for the garbage that is Windows.
I hate dealing with Windows, but I'd probably take even that over macOS. Not because there's anything wrong with macOS, but just because I can never figure out how to do anything in it and I'd prefer not to mount that learning curve.
Re: Is primary OS a dealbreaker for you (when taking a new job)?
#30As a hiring manager, I would appreciate if the candidate can let me know quickly if it is a show stopper for them. Quickest disqualification for both sides.