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I actually am switching jobs in a week; I was offered the choice of a 13" or 15" MBP. I do web development, so Windows isn't really an option. Unfortunately, I can't choose Linux, since it doesn't run whatever management tool the org uses. But if I could have an XPS or ThinkPad with some flavor of Linux, I would probably do it, just to be contrary.

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> I do web development, so Windows isn't really an option.

LOL. That's hilarious. But, yes...it really is an option.

I've been doing web development on Windows since forever. For the last 5 years I've focused almost exclusively on Node.js. I also use Python 2 and 3, Django, Ruby, PHP, Postgres and MYSQL.

Furthermore, I run many projects with tech that Linux and the Mac OS don't have such as IIS, SQL Server (the two pieces of tech that 90% of every small/medium and large businesses are using in-house to build or run custom software for themselves.)

You sir are uninformed. Roughly 30% of all public websites are running IIS on Windows (~10% of active sites) and you can rest assured that percentage goes way up for internal/intranet sites - https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2016/02/22/february-2016-...

> I do web development, so Windows isn't really an option.

What.

Hacker News bubble.

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