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A poll the OP asked me to share, it asks "Which OS is using as your development environment?"
Yea but your the only one I will lower my standards enough to actually be friends with :)
@freemo @tacumi LOL, thank you. 😝
There is hope, I have tried Linux at various times, but am just much more productive on an environment where I have a good collection of tools ready.
It's hard to switch and feel like a newbie, have to look for all the essentials again.
But I have unallocated disk space in various of my laptops for that reason; can be added if desired.
Which version would be good for someone new (not Arch from what I hear. I think my son used it many years ago, and everything had to be compiled from source, that's too radical for me).
Mint?
@design_RG Mint is a great option for someone new, so is Ubuntu.
the learning curve is steep. Windows is built as a platform for non-tech people (Even though tech people do use it). That makes it easy to use without needing to do much research, but it also means it isnt nearly a powerful and not well suited for tech people.
I have a project I run (Aparapi) where I need to compile a native app for windows. Simply compiling on windows (due to the difficulty in automating such a thing) has wasted an astronomical amount of man hours. Having worked in both environments side by side I really dont understand how most windows users can bare it. I usually just tell myself its the result of them not knowing what they are missing as they never put the time in to learn the alternatives.
Not saying that applies to you, but man windows is like pulling teeth as a developer even though i do find it easy to learn.
