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by r00fus 4802 days ago
The major one: a really decent free SSH client is built into every Mac.

You must download (featured but inelegant) PuTTY in order to do this on Windows.

Also, until somewhat recently (Win7), the lack of symlinks (junctions) caused all sorts of problems when pulling down a source tree locally for editing if it contained symbolic links.

Other than that, I agree.
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Nick_C 4801 days ago
Just to note for existing Vista users, junctions are in Vista and junction points are even in XP (from Windows 2000).
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r00fus 4800 days ago
The problem isn't the OS, it's software like SVN that didn't support junctions until much later than junctions were introduced into Vista (and backported to XP).

And then projects need to use the latest versions of those software in order to benefit... and that's assuming the feature support is stable.

As late as 2009, our windows project devs (at my old company) were at a disadvantage to OSX, Linux users.

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