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Honestly the best situation for someone like this is to buy a nice $800 Windows machine and do your development in a Linux VM. For years now developers not in the Mac ecosystem have used this approach.

I prefer developing on Mac myself, but have used the other approach too with good success. It works, just maybe not as seamlessly.

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In the post they specifically say they can't use Linux due to legal reasons. I imagine this would apply to a VM, also.

They were talking about editing documents that require licensed / non-open source software, no? Not the actual development?

Edit your docs in windows, write your code on the Linux VM.

Why not run Linux with Windows in the VM? Is there a reason?

Potato potato.

For instance for my current dev station I have a Mac and whenever I need Windows for something I use a Windows VM. It works pretty well for me.

The bottom line is that the guy needs cheap hardware that allows for a modern dev environment and also access to windows. Some flavor of linux + windows will check the boxes.

Edit your docs in Windows, write your code with Visual Studio targeting WSL. It’s the future.

... nothing about writing code in windows is the future.

Being a developer doesn't mean programming UNIX software.

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