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by krschultz 4112 days ago
s/not running Windows/not running Windows or refusing to install a free VM/

5 or 6 years ago I had to have Windows to run CAD software, but I found it easier to have a virtualbox install w/ Ubuntu in it for software development than trying to write code on Windows. The performance was good enough an the usability was pretty good. I imagine it has only gotten better since then.
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jacquesm 4112 days ago
One company I work with has a firewall of a certain brand. It only works with windows or a mac, you can't connect to it from a command line it needs some stupid app that you download and install just to make a VPN connection.

Not having a unix specific build system work on windows seems to be pretty much the expected behaviour. As opposed to a firewall that runs linux internally requiring windows or OS/X to talk to it...

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vacri 4111 days ago
I struggled with Cisco AnyConnect's linux client until I eventually found the open-source OpenConnect replacement. The Cisco website even detected that I ran linux and offered the linux client for download, whereupon it dutifully pushed the Windows client... The crappy linux client I did have had to come from our cloud vendor.

OpenConnect 'just worked', thankfully.

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jacquesm 4111 days ago
The one I'm battling is a Fisher-Price based firewall from a company called Palo-Alto. It makes the complex simple and the simple complex.
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CurtHagenlocher 4112 days ago
Using a VM would only work if the individual build tools themselves run under Unix. That said, no open source project owes anybody anything.
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ambrop7 4112 days ago
Not quite. You can map shared folders to the guest and edit the code in the VM with your favorite editor, but build it on Windows.
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