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by Mikeb85
4517 days ago
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Maybe it's like a sort of Stockholm syndrome... Yesterday a buddy of mine (and partner in crime - the proverbial kind) tried to install a new language and dev environment on his machine. 4 hours and much frustration later, he still couldn't do much. On Linux the same tasks would have taken 20 minutes (and did, as I had installed the same environment several months ago). I couldn't imagine doing any development on Windows unless it's C++ or C# on VS... Everything is a hassle compared to Linux. |
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I wouldn't call it that. My assumption is based off of the outcome in desktop market share and the fact of the monopoly title still being held by Windows.
>Yesterday a buddy of mine (and partner in crime - the proverbial kind) tried to install a new language and dev environment on his machine. 4 hours and much frustration later, he still couldn't do much.
Out of curiosity what was he/she installing? Unless its a *nix port of something, all it should involve is install and run.
Well its quiet opposite for me, everytime I try to set up a dev environment or anything GUI related (like media center) on Ubuntu, there is atleast one thing that happens not to work. Googling mostly comes up with a fix where I would need to recompile the whole thing, at which point I give up and switch to Windows.
However, for servers, I love Linux distros, it works perfectly out of box, I can't imagine running Windows for anything server related.