• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    This isn’t unpopular.

    When I was working at the Unix shop - we worked making Unix - we all were on windows, securecrt, Mozilla and winamp as coding rigs.

    We were 100% using Windows desktops to code a different operating system. I mean, it actually built on Unix and only Unix, because of course, but we were all using vandyke on windows for the ssh client.

    Why? Same as you: we could have run Unix or windows on our desks, but windows did winamp and vandyke and Mozilla better and we didn’t wanna grab a nightly build and discover it was fucked. And Linux modelines, oh-my-god. So it was windows, because it was kinda their sweet spot: music, ssh, Mozilla.