Ask HN: Any programmer/developer using Windows as their primary OS?

#1

Post by b01t » Thu, Jan 19, 2017, 7:42 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Any programmer/developer using Windows as their primary OS?

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Post by severus » Thu, Jan 19, 2017, 7:45 AM UTC

Yes

Re: Ask HN: Any programmer/developer using Windows as their primary OS?

#3

Post by zero_one_one » Thu, Jan 19, 2017, 7:56 AM UTC

severus wrote: post #2

Yes

I wish I had more upvotes to give this answer!

Re: Ask HN: Any programmer/developer using Windows as their primary OS?

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Post by andreicon » Thu, Jan 19, 2017, 8:53 AM UTC

I'm using it at work and it's a pain. Don't go down that path unless you're writing windows applications. For anything else, use a real OS

Re: Ask HN: Any programmer/developer using Windows as their primary OS?

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Post by XtalJ » Thu, Jan 19, 2017, 11:14 AM UTC

At my new job, yes, but I solved the hideous problem by installing Babun, which is a package of a fairly good terminal emulator (mintty), cygwin, package manager, and my beloved zsh :-) I can use vim, grep, ls, find, sed, shell scripts, and much more. Like on Linux but without the possiblity to choose fluxbox as window manager.

Re: Ask HN: Any programmer/developer using Windows as their primary OS?

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Post by Garvey » Thu, Jan 19, 2017, 11:20 AM UTC

andreicon wrote: post #4

I'm using it at work and it's a pain. Don't go down that path unless you're writing windows applications. For anything else, use a real OS

I'm using it at work and it's a pleasure.

Use whatever fits your workflow and try not to be put off by comments like this that offer no useful information.

Re: Ask HN: Any programmer/developer using Windows as their primary OS?

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Post by boznz » Thu, Jan 19, 2017, 7:35 PM UTC

I would suspect most are.. I doubt they read HN though