[ericcholis]

I've put my foot down as long as I could about the joys of developing on Windows. But, since I've moved onto doing PHP and Python (with sprinkles of Ruby) full-time, I can't any longer.

Windows has come a long way in terms of development of non-.NET languages. But, there are still too many idiosyncrasies to function as a full-time platform for many languages.

Seems like my base need for Photoshop will push me to Mac sooner than I'd like.

[kayoone]

care to name examples ? from my experience, especially when doing web development, the OS your tools run on does not really matter anymore.

[ericcholis]

A number of Python and PHP extensions either aren't up to date or don't work at all. Memcached comes to mind.

[kayoone]

i run my dev enviroment in the cloud on ubuntu vms, just my editor and terminal client are on windows or osx if i happen to work on my laptop. So the OS doesnt really matter. If you run everything on the local machine, sure windows might not be ideal, but i dont consider that good practice anyway.