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I can't think I a single thing I'd need to boot into Windows for anymore.

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Visual Studio is better than any IDE in existence. With ViEmu it becomes even better.

Unless you don't have 30 spare gigs of storage space...

If by 30 you mean 20 gigs then, yes. Also, 20 gigs on a very decent 256GB SSD costs around $6.40. I don't know how much your hourly wage is, but the time Visual Studio saves me compared to other development platforms makes up for that money pretty quickly.

I was just being cheeky, honestly, but that price doesn't scale linearly, at least not on a laptop. A 512gb SSD might have a higher cost-per-GB than a 256GB SSD.

I don't run Windows and consequently haven't used VS in any kind of intimate detail, I'm sure it's great if you like dealing with IDEs. I feel more productive with Vim, tmux, GHCI, and GraspJS for doing of my web development.

> If by 30 you mean 20 gigs then, yes.

I'm pretty sure VS doesn't require nowhere near that amount and you are talking about Windows symbols.

That might be true; I had a slightly tainted image of VS when I had to use it three years ago, and after everything I needed was installed, I only had like a gig left (this was on a weak, underpowered netbook, admittedly).

In retrospect it's not entirely VS's fault, though I just found it amusing how quickly it ate through my storage when Vim only takes like 90 megs.

Games.

Fortunately for me, the only game I really care about (Civ5) is available on Linux thanks to SteamOS. It certainly seems as though I am in the tiniest of minorities, though.

for me it's turbotax that does not have a linux version

For the past 5-6 years I've used https://taxact.com/ and haven't needed Windows.

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