It would have to be the 2nd option. Who in their right mind would voluntarily choose Windows as their dev env? It will have to be those who are already there.

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bluGill 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Most people don't have a choice. Corporate IT has choosen what I run my machine on. I have used a native linux machine, but since my email is still on outlook, everybody uses teams, and all the non-code documents are on windows I end up having to have a windows machine. Linux in a VM under windows ends up being the easiest workflow (though I'm just starting to try WSL and so far it is looking good)

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disgruntledphd2 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> (though I'm just starting to try WSL and so far it is looking good)

WSL is really nice, as is Windows Terminal. I particularly love its fonts (but that's probably just me).

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throwaway85825 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Did they ever fix terminal performance?

	▲	ocdtrekkie an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I think just running cmd still uses much less memory but Terminal is much, much faster than it was.

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philwelch 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Outlook and Teams are both web apps, or at least they were when I last used them. Even if you download the "native" app it's just Electron. I haven't had trouble using either of them on Linux.

	▲	bluGill 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Outlook is native. There is the new web version that it says don't use (yet)

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vouwfietsman 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This kind of stuff is why its hard to have good conversations about tooling. Windows is the best place for many kinds of software dev, but perhaps not the kind you are doing.

	▲	rafterydj 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When it is not the mandated option, under what circumstances is Windows the best choice for software dev? The only domain I can think of is gaming, and Valve is seemingly coming up fast to eat Microsoft's lunch in the next few years.

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neutronicus 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Visual Studio brings a lot to the table for C++ development. Specifically the Debugger, although IntelliSense also often succeeds at queries that stump clangd.

If they can replicate that capability, I think it can be a draw.

I was a mac / Linux guy before my current gig, but Visual Studio is so much more capable than XCode that I basically only use the Windows machine except to debug mac-specific issues. Less so, now, admittedly, that the malware scanner process is literally always pegging a CPU core.