I dev every workday on Windows 11 and I don't get why people feel like it's awful to work on? I dunno what everyone else is doing but it's basically just switching between the IDE, Slack and the browser. The OS never seems to be an issue for me. My only real gripe is that even I click update and shutdown at the end of the day, it updates and restarts.

Same for my colleagues using a Mac.

I'd be more bothered about using Teams over Slack

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (15 children)

You have to install extra crap to get the terminal to work like unix and I always had to fight with it to install things. Not worth the time. Maybe if you don't need a terminal though?

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

You install git and you get git bash that works great in the Windows terminal. That's something you do once. I use the terminal daily, not an issue at all.

[–] r1veRRR@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cool, and then there's NEVER any problems with different paths? With back and forward slashes? With the limit on path length? With missing permissions on the file system requiring weird workarounds?

Most importantly, your server is likely not Windows, yet you test on Windows, and that's never ever been a serious source of issues?

And don't say WSL. That's like saying the fix to using Windows is to use Linux, but fiddlier. Not to mention you still get issues with the mounted file system.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago

Cool, and then there’s NEVER any problems with different paths? With back and forward slashes? With the limit on path length? With missing permissions on the file system requiring weird workarounds?

Nope. The language we use handles that for us. I don't think path length has been an issue for a while now?

Most importantly, your server is likely not Windows, yet you test on Windows, and that’s never ever been a serious source of issues?

We use serverless functions using Linux and it's never an issue. My previous employer, we had Windows servers and Linux based containers, and that wasn't an issue either.

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