I'm switching companies. Gonna have to use Windows, grr. No Linux for development machines. :(

How do you guys keep yourself productive in Windows? I honestly can't in its bare state.

Best idea, for now, is just using a VM on top of Windows and ignore the Host OS.

I think you are exaggerating a little bit...

There are more important things than a simple OS to work for a company. (colleagues, work env, salary, health and many, many more)

Windows is just an OS and I'm sure that the requirement can be changed if you really want it.

Tbh: W10 has a lot of flaws, but it's not impossible to use it.

Download git bash and a lot of unix commands will work

It's just an OS..

In private you might choose what you like the best, but at work you just work with what you get. Windows isn't THAT broken that it's impossible to work with.

WSL

@Cryteku I totally agree there with you, it's possible and there are other, more important things to consider.
But that wasn't necessarily the intent here. I’d like to keep both sides at best the same. I have my own plans to get into the biz and it would be plain annoying for me to switch OS day to day. Besides, I work there on a give and take basis.

@oudalally That sounds pretty neat. I myself probably need at some point OSX anyways, just because of Sketch. I was mainly playing with the VM Idea so I may be able to make an exact image of my work environment and spin it up back home.

@ScribeOfGoD @xzvf
Has WSL come that far so you can actually use it? I had a few headaches last time I tried it.

I was also thinking about a hosted hypervisor, but I’m not sure about that yet.

If the worst thing about your job is the fact that you have to use Windows then I think you’ve got it pretty good.

Buy a Mac. Run Linux. Windows can’t be productive. —>

Use Linux Subsystem for Windows....

SSH to home computer

Linux subsystem or Docker for Windows. Or cygwin if you also don't have admin rights like me...

I don't see productivity issues with Windows. Just install the software you need and work with that. Oh and get a real editor, MS Notepad is just as shitty as vi, only the other way around. Notepad++ is superb.

Then maybe Sumatra PDF to avoid the Adobe shit, and of course a real browser.

@Fast-Nop yeah 50 % slower builds don't affect productivity at all

@PAKA then fix your buildchain.