Seeing David Heinemeier Hansson so excited about Linux on the desktop and building his ultimate web developer setup https://omarchy.org/ is inspiring! Check out the first 5 minutes of the video on the front page
Haha, amazing what Windows users get exited about. Everything he shows is like 20 years old tech.
I get it though. I had to build one of my apps on Windows the other day and setting up the environment (in a VM) was way more painful than I expected. Windows is simply not built for devs. You can develop on it if you really want but it just doesn’t feel natural.
Wait until DHH finds NixOS, where we can configure everything via single configuration. Even multiple machines.
I love Debian for what it taught me, but I’m not sure if I’ll ever use anything else.
Large numbers of developers only work in Linux, and refuse to work in MacOS. No dev worth their salt works in Windows.
No dev worth their salt works in Windows.
lol. Tell that to my team who has been developing our product for Windows for 25-30 years, generating probably a billion euros over the years.
Can’t tell if you’re just joking or not but either way. 😄
Nobody telling you, so let’s here ALLLL about the Windows shit you build and all the metrics.
Java, I’m assuming? 🤢🤢
C++, desktop scientific mathematical software for Windows.
By the way, you seem a bit on edge. You okay?
Disclaimer, I am using Linux at home and work, I work on a tangential thing to the rest of my team. I’m just saying, these are very much senior devs worth their salt, and that you made a bad take. But I do agree with you that Windows is not nice to work in.
No True Scotsman, ey?
Personally, i have a strong preference for Linux, but I don’t care if it’s a Mac. It’s unix-like enough, and all my stuff works. In fact, I already have a NixOS + Nix-darwin setup going really well. Windows though is just a hard no
