[kodemager]

In decades of software development in Danish enterprise and smaller companies I’ve never worked in a place that didn’t use windows. I don’t think I’ve worked in a place where using WSL wouldn’t be more of an administrative hassle than it was worth either.

Windows isn’t such a bad place to develop these days, depending on what you’re developing of course, but I’ve never had issue using Python, dotnet (as in the cli, not visual studio) or anything related to typescript or node in general.

I don’t particularly like using windows. I can’t tell you why, I used to like it, but I haven’t since I switched from 7 to 10. Which is sort of ironic considering that developing on windows has gotten much better with windows 10, but well, it’s probably just my personal opinion. So I actually often work on things on my personal Mac, which is sort of easy in todays environment if most of your assets live in the cloud which ours do. But I don’t mind using windows, about the only thing that annoys me these days is that you use “cd” instead of “ls” in the non shell terminal.

[mrweasel]

Danmark is very much still Windows first country for developers. Macs are showing up more and more and a few can use Linux. The thing is, those companies I know who allow their developer to use Linux, provides their employees with two computers, a Linux developer workstation, and a Windows machine for "other stuff".

I have the same issue with defining exactly why I don't like Windows. Part of the issue is my hand cramps up when I use it, but I don't know why. Windows seems sluggish, but people who measure these things says that it's not.

[japanuspus]

Re. everything is Windows in Denmark, my understanding (backed by a few acquaintances as MS) is that Denmark is being actively pursued as a test-marked by Microsoft: It is a sufficiently advanced market that they can get everything tested, and sufficiently small that they can sell at loss without large expenses.

My experience working in a large Danish Corp. is that you need a really good reason before you can get a non-Windows machine, and if you do you still need a Windows machine on the side. Still, coming from a decade of OS X and GNU/Linux, Windows was actually surprisingly workable as a development environment.

[cookieswumchorr]

something is rotten in the state of Denmark /s