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I can accept this to an extent - I have our environment set up with virtual machines running replicas of our production environment mostly to ensure that code will work once moved in to production - this let's my dev team work platform agnostic while maintaining the reliability of code consistency.

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Yes, this is a good solution.

But once I worked this way, and everyone was using the same VM. It was a mess and painful slow.

I think the better option is have the best of both worlds: a VM to make final tests, when needed, and let your developer choose the best environment.

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