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jiggy2011 on July 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touc...

Platform choice and fragmentation is a pain in the ass.

I develop and maintain a bunch of sites. Majority of visitors are on Windows (Many using IE/WinXP).

Servers run Linux and I can never seem to get an accurate dev environment under Windows (some libraries don't seem to behave differently there).

Also a bunch of the front-end tools that I would like to use only run on Mac.

I don't really want to keep 3 uptodate computers.

nddrylliog on July 14, 2012 [–]

Why would you need to run a dev environment on Windows? Keep running your dev environment on Linux and SSH to it using Putty/Chrome secure Shell. Works like a charm :)

jiggy2011 on July 14, 2012 | [–]

Because I like to be able to use graphical tools and VNC etc feel laggy.

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