Actually, just a few days ago, I got fed up with Apple and tried to switch to Microsoft, and make it my main development machine, and so far I have to say I am impressed.
Twitter thread describing the experience: https://twitter.com/PetrHurtak/status/1314854634394185728
Windows 10 is a surprisingly good OS, with a thin layer of crap spread over it (the tracking). But it's still surprisingly easy to remove that layer, and the underlying things is pleasant to use, with wsl as a real game changer, wsl2 even more so.
I was always a windows person on my main computer and I liked 7 a lot but it still didn't quite feel right for devs, but windows 10 really makes us feel at home.
Also you went with a surface pro, which has been a genuinely top of the line hardware serie from microsoft
I was always a Windows native due to hobby game development. Back in the 2000-2010 times, that meant you were using Windows.
The dev tooling on Windows for things that aren't .NET has gotten much, much better in the last 10 years. Sometime in the last 4 years I stopped feeling like I had to have a Linux installation available to switch for my programming needs, and I've mostly just been using WSL instead. I still keep the Linux installation around, but now it's months in between when I boot it up.
nolok|5 years ago
I was always a windows person on my main computer and I liked 7 a lot but it still didn't quite feel right for devs, but windows 10 really makes us feel at home.
Also you went with a surface pro, which has been a genuinely top of the line hardware serie from microsoft
munchbunny|5 years ago
The dev tooling on Windows for things that aren't .NET has gotten much, much better in the last 10 years. Sometime in the last 4 years I stopped feeling like I had to have a Linux installation available to switch for my programming needs, and I've mostly just been using WSL instead. I still keep the Linux installation around, but now it's months in between when I boot it up.