I’m a software engineer and we use windows. 90% of my day is spent in Visual Studio Professional. The rest is split between chrome, outlook, teams, postman, and SQL server management studio.

I literally never go to the start menu. I have shortcut icons on the bar for everything I need.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I’m was working on software that doesn’t exclusively target windows. Windows is only a decent dev environment if you’re targeting nothing but Windows. Any other kind of development is a worse, potentially way worse experience than it is on Linux. Using docker on Windows is painful. Using git is painful. Using bash is painful. The list goes on forever.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 hours ago

Most of our code lives on Linux servers. We target web browser most of the time. For those where it’s a windows application then sure it lives in windows environment.

[–] Sl00k@programming.dev 6 points 16 hours ago

In my experience with windows there's just a slight lagginess everywhere. I've had full gaming PCs still feel laggy just in Vscode. It's not bad but it's a small pain point that I don't want to experience for 40 hours a week.