Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

Re:Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video] by derefr on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @12:44PM (#13697581)

My impression is that most devs who write POSIX software these days use macOS (with possibly Linux running in a VM.) AFAIK, that's more to do with preferring Apple hardware, and then Linux not having 100% support for said hardware (e.g. touchpad multitouch / "force touch".)

Devs who write native apps for an OS (e.g. DirectX games for Windows) will of course use that OS.

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Re:Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video] by kupiakos on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @12:53PM (#13697656)

See, that's not really what I see in my experience. About half of my friends that hack around use macOS, another half use Linux, and then a couple use Windows.

In general, I see Linux native used as often as Mac native, and Linux VMs used on Windows all the time. POSIX has little to do with it.

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Re:Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video] by RussianCow on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @03:01PM (#13699299)

I've interviewed at a couple local companies with 50+ devs each (mostly web dev positions), and almost everyone uses a Mac. This is anecdote of course, but I very rarely see devs using Linux professionally (natively, not in a VM).

That said, it depends on the kind of work; obviously, .NET developers almost exclusively use Windows, and I've noticed that sysadmins and system engineers are a little more likely to use Linux.

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