The story of a a new Linux convert

[Sagemta]

I love stories like this:
Anteru’s blog » Switching to Linux: A Windows developer’s view

Actually, the switch is so simple that Microsoft should get concerned. For instance, I have been developing mainly on Windows since several years, and I occasionally tried Linux, but I never did a complete switch due to various smaller and bigger problems. However, since 1-2 years, the Linux desktop, together with the tools, is good enough to provide some real benefit, especially if you cannot access the latest Microsoft products. Microsoft used to have the best developer tools by far, and quite stable APIs, which were in my opinions the corner stones of their success. However, they’re changing APIs now rather quickly (WinForms? WPF? WinAPI?), they provide new platforms which require rewriting your applications (I’m still waiting for an application like AutoCAD which has a C# UI and a C++ backend), and the tool release cycle is simply too long – waiting 2 years to get a compiler bug fixed is just ridiculous.

[PVince81]

Oh yeah, I read that one today too. Pretty interesting :-)

[Knurpht]

Summarizing: linux is a far better windows development environment than windows itself.

I'm sure we will see more stories like this.

[PVince81]

I remember about 15 years ago having heard from some people that Linux was a good platform for developing software, better than Windows.