I dev every workday on Windows 11 and I don't get why people feel like it's awful to work on? I dunno what everyone else is doing but it's basically just switching between the IDE, Slack and the browser. The OS never seems to be an issue for me. My only real gripe is that even I click update and shutdown at the end of the day, it updates and restarts.

Same for my colleagues using a Mac.

I'd be more bothered about using Teams over Slack

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 3 points 33 minutes ago

Teams has recently decided to stop working on any browser except edge. I don't know if this is intentional (at least chromium should work similarly) or if it's a wayland thing, but I'm just assuming malice since webrtc works fine in all other instances.

Fuck all of microslop on principle.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 7 points 56 minutes ago

You have to install extra crap to get the terminal to work like unix and I always had to fight with it to install things. Not worth the time. Maybe if you don't need a terminal though?

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 2 points 1 hour ago

It's slow, it's unstable, it's slow, it's hard to customise, it's slow, it's bloated, it's slow, it's counter intuitive. Did I also mention that it's slow?

[–] Schal330@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Windows can add some complications as a dev, especially in the corporate environment when really strict group policies are implemented that stop Devs from installing or configuring systems as they need.

One company I worked at remained on Windows LTSC for security reasons, and a lot of Devs that were working with Java hit a snag if for whatever reason an IDE they were using really wanted a system environment variable configured a certain way and it would straight up ignore user environment variables. They would be restricted from basically being able to configure anything without getting IT to remote on and make the changes for them.

I was forced to use a Mac for the first time years ago for work, I still hate working on a Mac but I can't deny how much more flexible it can be compared to working in a Windows environment that is locked down.