| It's always bemuses me to see some Linux developers talk like there is literally no other option, and that all 'real' development is done on Linux. Meanwhile, in the Real World(tm), something like 80% of all software is developed for Windows or other non-Linux operating systems. Linux is just the most popular, at the moment, with a small subset of developers in a certain age-range. Mostly web-developers working outside of the enterprise environments, such as startups. These are people that think MySQL is a real database, PHP is a proper programming language, and Bash is the only shell. I have the same reaction when I see some documentation with instructions on "how to set up Kerberos support" that doesn't even mention Active Directory. It's as if the authors came from some alternate reality, a parallel Earth where Windows Server isn't quite literally 99.9% of all deployed Kerberos authentication systems. I'm a consultant that gets to visit many different types of organisations, big and small, many with on-site or outsourced development teams. Almost all of them use Windows, develop in C#, VB, or Java and deploy on IIS or various Java platforms, but still on Windows. There are a handful that use the LAMP stack or WordPress, but these are few and far between. Try Visual Studio and C#, focusing on its strengths like the "async" keyword. Try writing a little web app using the latest .NET Core and MS SQL Server 2019. Try adding some ColumnStore indexes on your data and point PowerBI at it. The performance will blow your mind. PS: All of the above are free, and/or free for developers: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/ https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downlo... https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/download-sql-serve... https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/ |