Your base OS for development or your favourite Workbench OS!

i recently had a good long argument on using Windows or Linux Os for development. I am a serious Windows 10 fanboy. So I just wanted to know how many use Linux, Windows 10 and MacOS.

I know these OS's are un-comparable but I just want to show my friends the voting down by real engineers of this community!

All those voting I would also love to hear why you love the OS and how it differs itself from others.

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genebren over 6 years ago +5

I continue to use my Windows 7 Pro OS. I was never a fan of the later versions of Windows and I use too many programs that I could not find availables for Linux.
Fred27 over 6 years ago +4

If you're a professional then you should be capable and comfortable with both Windows and Linux. By all means have a preference for one or the other, but don't make the mistake of thinking anyone else…
Jan Cumps over 6 years ago +4

others: windows and linux for boards that can run an OS. latest versions if I can. RTOSes for microcontrollers. FreeRTOS or TI-RTOS.

xeonaj over 6 years ago in reply to glennvanderveer

Yeah my Linux friends will have to install Visual Studio for Azure Sphere!
There should have been a standalone cross platform IDE for Azure Sphere which would work on Linux and MacOS!
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xeonaj over 6 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

Great I never knew such OS's!
Yeah! and maybe you should add links to things which are new!
https://www.freertos.org/
TI-RTOS-MCU TI-RTOS: Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) for Microcontrollers (MCU) | TI.com

This is why I love this community!
Its just awesome got to learn a lot of things new from the time I joined this community!
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yosoufe over 6 years ago

I like linux. Why? Because in any situation I can still get the black terminal to clean up my mess

I wish I could run my game and also fusion 360 on linux.
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colporteur over 6 years ago

If you are as long in the tooth (old) as I am, banter between the operating system O/S worlds over the years has at some times gotten nasty. People become entrenched in their ideals and will fight to preserve their position. Defining better or best is subjective especially when the measuring criteria are vague.

I'm an open source O/S supporter. Ubuntu Linux is my beast of choice. I migrated to the O/S after the development teams on other Linuxs took that O/S in a direction that wasn't going to work for me.

I maintain a windows 10 hard drive. It gets used once a year during income tax season. I find the the O/S developers limit the users ability to determine what works for them and you are left with what works for the majority or this is the way you should use it. For those reasons, some 19 years ago I made a effort to move away from the O/S. Swimming against the Microsoft tide has not be easy personally and professionally.

I encourage you to find what O/S works for you and invest in that. That may be difficult if your employer has a different path. It is not impossible, but does offer some challenges.

I see by your statics, you're fairly new to the Community. You will discover, for the most part, the community is friendly and encouraging. I can't recall ever getting an RTFM response, that is common on some technical sites. I use this site often to solicited opinions from technical people. I miss, since retiring, the whiteboard/napkin exercises the technical teams did during breaks over coffee. I have made forum posts on this site, to recreate that same environment.

Sean
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Gough Lui over 6 years ago

I prefer Windows purely because I still have many devices that work better on Windows, so this remains my primary. However, the number of Linux boxen outnumber Windows boxes in the house, so it's a win for both really. Develop on one, deploy on/with the other.

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genebren over 6 years ago in reply to glennvanderveer

Yeah, old school! I have always been a big fan of bare metal software.
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glennvanderveer over 6 years ago

I prefer to run Linux on my main computer. However, there are tools that don't have Linux friendly options (cough Azure sphere cough) and I have to run Windows. I prefer not to run an RTOS on my boards because I am old school where you had to account for every byte of RAM and PROM to make sure you didn't run out.
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Jan Cumps over 6 years ago

others:
windows and linux for boards that can run an OS. latest versions if I can.
RTOSes for microcontrollers. FreeRTOS or TI-RTOS.
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genebren over 6 years ago in reply to cmelement14

Don't get me wrong, but I have developed software for many commercial products/systems on UNIX and Linux. I actually prefer UNIX/Linux OS to Window any day. But I seriously do have older software/hardware that will only run on Windows (or DOS).
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xeonaj over 6 years ago in reply to cmelement14

How about finding the perfect alternative to Microsoft Office 2019!
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