Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab

Re:Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab by sonofhans on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:42AM (#32356815)

I agree. If nothing else they won’t be able to replicate Windows typography, which is different from Linux and OS X. Base fonts are different; kerning and anti-aliasing are different. Web design is still 90% typography, and cutting the largest install base out of your test matrix seems silly to me.

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Re:Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab by kazinator on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:54AM (#32357016)

I have a company laptop that runs Windows, but everything I work on runs on an ARM-based device.

Work computer != target machine

For about 20 years, I've not developed anything at work that runs on the work computer that is used for doing the development, documention, e-mailing and whatnot.

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Re:Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab by wruza on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:55AM (#32357025)

Do you mean px issues, which web standards ought to solve, or just how typography looks from a design point of view?

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