Microsoft's Software Is Malware

Re:Microsoft's Software Is Malware by shortrounddev on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @05:44PM (#35348364)

i saw a stackoverflow survey that said something like 75% of developers use windows as their main dev environment

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Re:Microsoft's Software Is Malware by doodlesdev on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:05PM (#35349345)

I imagine it was this one [0]. I was confused by it at first because it amounts to more than 100%, then I understood it's a multiple choice question, so the correct affirmation would be around 50% of spftware developers use Windows in a professional capacity, but that doesn't exclude them also using Linux, macOS or BSD.

[0]: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-popular-t...

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Re:Microsoft's Software Is Malware by dathinab on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:50PM (#35349837)

any developer developing for windows is on windows

most game developers are on windows

whole tech sectors have been captured successful by Microsoft in the past and most developers there have to use Windows weather they like it or not, some of them are _really_ big (but also not super vocal or visible on GitHub as they tend to be quite proprietary in all of their actions).

etc. etc.

Idk. how realistic 75% is (e.g. what it counts as developer who/how people where asked etc.) but it's probably a high rate anyway.

EDIT: Also also probably using one doesn't exclude the other and doesn't necessary exclude them running it in a VM ;=)

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Re:Microsoft's Software Is Malware by shortrounddev on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:54PM (#35350519)

As a personal aside, I vastly prefer deving on Windows to macOS. Linux I can take or leave, but I just dont see the point really.

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