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As usual, it depends.
Windows programming pays my bills. I prefer the tools available under Windows to the tools available under Linux, but cannot honestly claim that these tools are better than the tools available under Linux.
I use Linux (in a virtual machine) for playing around with various ideas, the advantage being that there are no licensing requirements for Linux. This allows me to create as many VMs as I wish, without running into various boneheaded licensing enforcers (AKA Genuine Windows).
Lastly, I do not believe that there is any sort of "War" between Linux and Windows. Both are useful O/Ses, and each has its strengths and its weaknesses.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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There is no war whatsoever. Who cares about linux noawadays?
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Well, a lot of people care about the Android version of it.
And you'd be hard pressed to find businesses using any other version of Unix. Sun(=oracle) and HP died at my job a looong time ago.
If you're stuck with oracle and apache like a LOT of us are, Linux is what it's gonna sit on usually.
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Android != Linux.
The linux kernel might be the background, but programming is in the Android interface.
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yeah true. it's hardly linux-y at all. but it's not a bad os, really. seems to be growing in the right directions.
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I once installed Linux on a VM using Virtual Box running on a Windows 7 Host, never went back to it after the install.
And i've stared at the screen of our Zimbra mail server running on some Linux flavour, but i can't remember which.
Windows all the way for me.
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I've been on one or other MS OS for nearly my entire PC-life. Started with DOS 2.something. And still on Win 7 / 8 (if I have to). But that's only because of some programs (mostly CAD / BIM) which I need for work. When those aren't necessary I actually find using Linux (Kubuntu being my current preference) more easy to use, especially for programming tasks.
And wonder over wonder ... I tend to do lots of DotNet programming, especially for the BIM tool Revit. In which case I've found that SharpDevelop works better than VisualStudio for that purpose. And then since I'm now used to non-VS for DotNet, I like MonoDev in Linux even more than #Dev / VS. For nearly every thing else I find that Linux simply has all the tools I need, when forced to use Windows I find myself always having to install something like Cygwin just so I can actually "do" something worth while.
But I'm fully in agreement with the "what war" comments ... there is no war ... there's just: "what works?" "in what situations?" "which do you feel works better?" etc.
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By learning Linux skills in addition to Windows, I upped my salary by 40% in two years.
Developing on various OS's is fine, but I actually develop the OS too, and as you know, this is difficult with windows.
It's *okay* for consumer/commercial stuff and some, restricted, industrial stuff, but if you have to customise operating systems at a level beyond windows embedded, or if your resources are limited, then there is no drop in for Linux.
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Ya don't consider Android or iOS operating systems?
I'll write on toppa any OS they pay me to.
For my hobby (unpaid programming of music software) I'll stick with windows. FOR NOW...
But android is looking pretttty attractive.
It's at least growing in the right direction unlike windows which seems to be growing in the wrong direction. Both for several years now. Seems to me that Microsoft no longer "gets it" like they used to back in the late 90s.
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Windows for 95% of my development.
We do work on an iOS app, so I will occasionally jump in to help on that if there is time.
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Which OS do I develop most on? None/all. I used to program exclusively for Windows (C#, C++, Java, Windows XP is my favourite OS) but now I use primarily PHP and JavaScript precisely so I can target more platforms. The development of HTML 5 prompted my switch.
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Mostly I've been in Window shops (XP, in particular). Now, however, they have me doing web development . . .
. . . so I'm not really working on any platform.
Fortunately, we've finally got the place to drop IE and take up FireFox as the standard browser. Important since they don't have to pay to upgrade hundreds of systems in order to for all to have a reasonably compliant browser.
The server farm is, so far as I know, all Windows server, if that means anything.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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After Windows 7 OS corrupted itself I did Acer's factory reset and for an hour, all was well. After that, the new Win7 started setup on every boot after that, even after it was complete the first time. Then, everytime I booted "Please wait while setup prepares your computer for first use", next it would throw an error - "Windows can't finish setup" - so I had to restart the computer. Booting into safe mode would not work either. I finally made a Fedora 21 LiveUSB and put Fedora 21 on my laptop. It works like a charm, the FPS on games doubled, and it runs better than Windows.
It's not paranoid if they really are out to get you.
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BillWoodruff recently posted on the CodeProject Experts Advisory:
Well, I would say now is the time for CP to pioneer meaningful on-line tutoring !
I know how I would go about it, and if/when the time is "ripe," I'll be happy to put my ideas on, or under, the table Smile | 
If not "us:" who ?
cheers, Bill
I'm with Bill. Let's set this up. Helpouts was not a success so we should hear how Bill would set it up.
Gus Gustafson
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Helpouts hasn't been a success yet: but it's early days - and most of the world can't sign up for it as a mentor, because Google is still restricting it to just the USA (or was last time I looked)
Give it time: if Google really gets behind it (and the beta period was measured in days, not months) it could be a good idea, and work well.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Google's killing helpouts. See the Insider News.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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OriginalGriff wrote: Give it time
Not too much time though![^]
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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I can explain anything to any audience, and I've tailored more training projects than I care to remember.
My only problem would be time, but I'd be willing to do what I can.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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gggustafson wrote: BillWoodruff recently posted on the CodeProject Experts Advisory:
Link??
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Ah, secret organizations. Whatever.
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It's a CONSPIRACY!!!
We should form a group and have secret meetings to discuss it!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've just clicked the 'Notify me of new posts' button. Now at least I will know when they are talking even if I don't know what they are talking about.
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