[bryanlarsen]

I had experiences very similar to those of the OP. After almost 20 years with Solaris or Linux as my primary OS (with a brief interlude using OSX), I bought a Lenova Yoga 2 Pro and I thought I'd try using Windows as my primary OS. Two motivators: Windows had at the time better HighDPI support than Linux, and since I use Vagrant for everything anyways, I thought I could get the best of both worlds. That experiment didn't last long.

It works both ways. My boss is a Dev that's been developing in Windows for a similar amount of time, and he's being exposed to Linux for the last 3 years due to the project we're both working on, and I can understand his frustration.

It's a different mind set, really. Emacs & the CLI are second class citizens on Windows. Big IDE's are second class citizens on Linux. Not too mention 20 years of experience solving problems and knowing where to look for answers....

[rikkus]

"Emacs & the CLI are second class citizens on Windows"

I haven't used Emacs on Windows, but Powershell is the best shell I've used (I used to use zsh on Linux). There's also console2 and conemu if you want to avoid the built in cmd-derivative, which is rather unpleasant.

[Shorel]

But in Windows if I want to ssh somewhere I have to use another program.

[wsc981]

> Emacs & the CLI are second class citizens on Windows.

I'm wondering why a dev like Jonathan Blow seems to use mainly emacs for development on his Windows machine. He seems to be a developer with a focus on the Windows platform.