Thread: It's the final countdown!
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2017-06-08 , 17:22
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#4954
Originally Posted by Dave999 View Post
Sorry, but hopefully pichlo is bizzy voting so I can step in here. Not on his behalf but as an innocent bystander. While it might happen that a few project here and there using Linux in some way I can't imagine it's a majority that goes even semi Linux. Or do you count virtual box with Linux. Linux? Or even Cygwin ?

Do you think windows lose its top position within, let's say 10 years?
I cannot say how it is generally, I was just describing to how it is with us. As a strong development house swdevs make the bulk of people here, and nowdays all new products run on linux platform. (and even the legacy products are built on linux toolchain)

It is possible to use Windows as your main desktop and log on to remote systems for development and testing, but it is easier to use only one system all the way through; hence many have slipped away from Microsoft's grasp.
And the example of developers is dragging other people along; especially as the windows environment causes so many worries and glitches all the time, to where IM cannot help the people.

With Linux there is quite strong peer-help culture in the company, so when you encounter glitches they are quickly solved. In contrast when there are problems in Windows environment there is no way to solve the problems by oneself, instead you are forced to create an IM ticket which will often just get closed witout a fix...