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by jeroenhd 1281 days ago
> Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and IntelliJ IDEA blow any Linux text editor out of the water for developer productivity.

I used to love Visual Studio but Jetbrains has caught up to it and then surpassed it years ago. I generally run IDEA and VSCode for code editing and going back to Visual Studio is a real shock, especially with the pleasant memories I've had of using it.

VSCode and IDEA run great on Linux, though, perhaps even better because Windows isn't great with tons of tiny files.

WSL2 is great if you prefer the Windows GUI. It fixed almost every issue I've had developing on Windows outside of Microsoft's data hunger and terrible UI design. Whatever Linux centric tool you can think of, it just runs on Windows now.

If I could use the comfortable and stable Windows 7 UI with the Windows 11 kernel, I'd actually consider going back to Windows. In terms of usability, Windows just lacks polish these days. That said, my attempts to try macOS didn't fare much better, I just couldn't get over the primitive window management and the bad integration with my home/end/page up/page down keys.
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pjmlp 1281 days ago
People that keep repeating that matra really don't do serious Windows development.

GPU debugging, DDK support, ETW debugging, SQL Server integration, GUI designers for Forms, WPF, UWP, MFC, mixed mode debugging across .NET languages and C++, COM/WinRT IDE tooling,IIS integration,...

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KptMarchewa 1281 days ago
Yes, because this niche is so niche now it's not really worth talking about. Just as you're not talking about Mac as developer laptop to do Objective C or Cocoa development, but what 99% of programmers do.
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pjmlp 1281 days ago
Where in the world are those 99% developers?!?

Quite curious, I guess if we focus on US market, while disregarding game consoles and 80% of the desktop market.

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