[_moof]

I don't disagree with the overall point. I do want to say one thing though.

> As a professional programmer, I no longer consider Windows a viable option for serious work.

Please get over yourself. There's plenty of actually serious programming work being done on Windows.

> If you’re a programmer who’s used to Windows and you think I’m being overly harsh, I encourage you to spend a couple weeks in any other operating system.

For the record, I've spent decades in many other operating systems. It's interesting because the OS used to matter. Now 90% of the apps we use are either on the web or are web apps repackaged as desktop apps. Of course I can still tell when I switch between OSes, but it makes much, much, much less of a difference than it used to.

[dang]

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[pjmlp]

There is a certain current that equates being a developer with UNIX, as if the software for other platforms materializes out of fairy wishes from management.