Which OS do you work primarily on ?
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I've been using Windows for so long currently running window 8 on my desktop. I think windows is better to develop on than linux. What do you guys think about the war between linux and windows ?
"If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"
By learning Linux skills in addition to Windows, I upped my salary by 40% in two years. Developing on various OS's is fine, but I actually develop the OS too, and as you know, this is difficult with windows. It's *okay* for consumer/commercial stuff and some, restricted, industrial stuff, but if you have to customise operating systems at a level beyond windows embedded, or if your resources are limited, then there is no drop in for Linux.
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[fingers in ears] LALALALALALALALALALALALALA!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark_Wallace wrote:
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Don't you need a butter knife than that? Unless you're one of those guys who leaves unfinished stubs in place of working functions...
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
all apples run Windows
Don't neglect to mention that anyone with a non-apple OS has no interest in running it on their machine.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark_Wallace wrote:
anyone with a non-apple OS has no interest in running it on their machine
I have an interest. It's just not enough of one that I feel like ponying up hard-earned lucre to pay the Jobs tax.
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I've been using Windows for so long currently running window 8 on my desktop. I think windows is better to develop on than linux. What do you guys think about the war between linux and windows ?
"If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"
Ya don't consider Android or iOS operating systems? I'll write on toppa any OS they pay me to. For my hobby (unpaid programming of music software) I'll stick with windows. FOR NOW... But android is looking pretttty attractive. It's at least growing in the right direction unlike windows which seems to be growing in the wrong direction. Both for several years now. Seems to me that Microsoft no longer "gets it" like they used to back in the late 90s.
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There is no war whatsoever. Who cares about linux noawadays?
Well, a lot of people care about the Android version of it. And you'd be hard pressed to find businesses using any other version of Unix. Sun(=oracle) and HP died at my job a looong time ago. If you're stuck with oracle and apache like a LOT of us are, Linux is what it's gonna sit on usually.
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Well, a lot of people care about the Android version of it. And you'd be hard pressed to find businesses using any other version of Unix. Sun(=oracle) and HP died at my job a looong time ago. If you're stuck with oracle and apache like a LOT of us are, Linux is what it's gonna sit on usually.
Android != Linux. The linux kernel might be the background, but programming is in the Android interface.
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Android != Linux. The linux kernel might be the background, but programming is in the Android interface.
yeah true. it's hardly linux-y at all. but it's not a bad os, really. seems to be growing in the right directions.
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I've been using Windows for so long currently running window 8 on my desktop. I think windows is better to develop on than linux. What do you guys think about the war between linux and windows ?
"If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"
Windows for 95% of my development. We do work on an iOS app, so I will occasionally jump in to help on that if there is time.
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I've been using Windows for so long currently running window 8 on my desktop. I think windows is better to develop on than linux. What do you guys think about the war between linux and windows ?
"If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"
Which OS do I develop most on? None/all. I used to program exclusively for Windows (C#, C++, Java, Windows XP is my favourite OS) but now I use primarily PHP and JavaScript precisely so I can target more platforms. The development of HTML 5 prompted my switch.
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iOS developers often use Windows machines with virtual Mac OS X guests
This. I write Windows LOB software during the day, but when I don my cape and cowl at night I run OS X through VMWare on my Windows laptop. It was a gigantic pain in the rear end to get working and I wish that Apple better supported iOS developers developing in Windows. *sigh*
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I've been using Windows for so long currently running window 8 on my desktop. I think windows is better to develop on than linux. What do you guys think about the war between linux and windows ?
"If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"
Mostly I've been in Window shops (XP, in particular). Now, however, they have me doing web development . . . . . . so I'm not really working on any platform. Fortunately, we've finally got the place to drop IE and take up FireFox as the standard browser. Important since they don't have to pay to upgrade hundreds of systems in order to for all to have a reasonably compliant browser. The server farm is, so far as I know, all Windows server, if that means anything.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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I've been using Windows for so long currently running window 8 on my desktop. I think windows is better to develop on than linux. What do you guys think about the war between linux and windows ?
"If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"
After Windows 7 OS corrupted itself I did Acer's factory reset and for an hour, all was well. After that, the new Win7 started setup on every boot after that, even after it was complete the first time. Then, everytime I booted "Please wait while setup prepares your computer for first use", next it would throw an error - "Windows can't finish setup" - so I had to restart the computer. Booting into safe mode would not work either. I finally made a Fedora 21 LiveUSB and put Fedora 21 on my laptop. It works like a charm, the FPS on games doubled, and it runs better than Windows. It's not paranoid if they really are out to get you.
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I've been using Windows for so long currently running window 8 on my desktop. I think windows is better to develop on than linux. What do you guys think about the war between linux and windows ?
"If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"
Win 8.1