I usually have to struggle to make things work on Windows.
I have a friend -- an electronics hacker -- who insists on using Windows for everything. He recently wanted to play with a couple of web frameworks so he could pick one for a website he's building for an early stage startup. Getting him set up with Symfony and Rails was crazy. Now I fear the day he might want me to set up Django or Pylons :(
I once tried to set up a decent development environment for myself on Windows 7. Needless to say, I failed. Windows is excellent for .NET development (VS has no competition), but for anything else you're better off with a decent UNIX.
> I usually have to struggle to make things work on Windows.
My strategy for this has been to start with a "any Windows support is entirely accidental" approach, and then once someone steps forward to fix it place them in charge of Windows compatibility. There are never very many Windows users who are actually interested in helping though, especially compared to the number who complain about it not working.
I have a friend -- an electronics hacker -- who insists on using Windows for everything. He recently wanted to play with a couple of web frameworks so he could pick one for a website he's building for an early stage startup. Getting him set up with Symfony and Rails was crazy. Now I fear the day he might want me to set up Django or Pylons :(
I once tried to set up a decent development environment for myself on Windows 7. Needless to say, I failed. Windows is excellent for .NET development (VS has no competition), but for anything else you're better off with a decent UNIX.