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by boards2x 3892 days ago
Yea, right. Maybe if it had OS X or Linux on it? I'm sure the hardware is ok, but at least developers need a POSIX compliant environment, and Microsoft does not have anything much to offer these days. It's a new world.
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skc 3892 days ago
Developers /need/ a POSIX compliant environment you say?

You speak for all of them?

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boards2x 3891 days ago
That's not the point. This is about people switching to Wintel from MacBook (assuming they didn't buy a MacBook pro just to install Windows). Developer that use Mac/OS X use it because it's a UNIX machine, so moving to not POSIX compliant does not make much sense.
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mindcrash 3892 days ago
For anything else other than .NET development a POSIX compliant environment is highly advantageous over a Windows environment.

I speak out of experience.

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skc 3892 days ago
I think any devs making the very unlikely switch to Windows would know what they need to do get their POSIX fix.

In any case, this article seems to be rightly aimed at non devs.

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boards2x 3891 days ago
Why would you go this route though? Unless you must do .NET professionally, there's no real reason for devs these days to use anything Windows. It just makes everything much more complicated, and many compromises because of platform readiness of many of the cutting edge projects (everything seems to start today on OSX/Linux).
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JohnTHaller 3891 days ago
Just as there are lots of different types of OS needs, there are lots of different development needs. I develop in Windows and can't work on the software I build in OS X. Or Linux for that matter.
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