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Re:Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on? by wongarsu on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:15AM (#30055630)
I used to develop on Linux, but eventually wanted something that "just works" so I switched back to Windows. Much less time spent tinkering and more time spent getting things done, and WSL saves me from having to learn Powershell (even if I only hear good things about it).

Never even considered MacOS as an option. Not as good for tinkering as Linux, and with 17% market share (both in my country and global average) it can't deliver the "everyone supports this, everything just works" that I got with Windows (it also doesn't help that Apple lately seems to happily break anything not sold by them)

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Re:Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on? by ulzeraj on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:33AM (#30055797)
> I used to develop on Linux, but eventually wanted something that "just works" so I switched back to Windows. Much less time spent tinkering and more time spent getting things done, and WSL saves me from having to learn Powershell (even if I only hear good things about it).

I must be the strange one here since WSL is a hardcore nope from me. Mainly because I've gave that setup a chance last year and then after two hours of work I've noticed Windows git or WSL changed all my carriage returns to CLRF and basically broke all scripts and pipelines.

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Re:Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on? by jftuga on Monday January 24, 2022 @08:07PM (#30066537)
I just finished off a program to show which files use CRLF and which use LF. It also shows results for TAB, NUL, BOM-8 and BOM-16:

https://github.com/jftuga/chars

You can use the -f switch to help with pipelines and -j for JSON output.

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Re:Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on? by ayushnix on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:33AM (#30056851)
> I used to develop on Linux, but eventually wanted something that "just works" so I switched back to Windows. Much less time spent tinkering and more time spent getting things done

I started recommending WSL on Windows to a few friends who wanted to get a taste of how Linux works after hearing praises about it although I've never actually used it myself. I recently realized that systemd doesn't work on WSL (without ugly hacks) and /mnt also mounts Windows disks.

I have stopped recommending WSL since then. Although I don't recommend anyone to use Linux either.

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Re:Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on? by wongarsu on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:52AM (#30056997)
WSL works pretty well for typical command line usage (your typical "grep | sort | uniq" stuff) or for "this command line tool only runs/compiles on linux" usecases. If you push it much more than the abstraction starts getting leaky and you have to get more involved (though WSL2 can be pushed a lot more, e.g. getting systemd running in WSL2 doesn't seem that bad [1]).

1: https://gist.github.com/djfdyuruiry/6720faa3f9fc59bfdf6284ee...

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Re:Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on? by kanetw on Sunday January 30, 2022 @11:57PM (#30144659)
systemd doesn't work on WSL? Blessed Microsoft.
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Re:Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on? by GlennS on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:22AM (#30055691)
17% market share for MacOS? That seems high?
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Re:Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on? by wongarsu on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:37AM (#30055832)
It's actually more like 15% globally, if you use statcounter.com numbers [1]. I was being generous by using the early 2021 numbers. Statista probably uses the same source [2]. Netmarketshare puts it at about 10% [3]

1: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

2: https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha...

3: https://netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.asp...

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