my opinion is that the terminal and command prompt are entirely different

but why couldnt u essentially just have vm running linux and do literally everything?

why does programming on windows have such a confusing / impossible reputation?

This post was edited by spoofdaboss on Jan 20 2017 11:28am

If you're using Linux ina VM to program I wouldn't call that programming on windows.

Windows is perfectly fine for programming. The one thing that annoyed the hell out of me was installing C/C++/Python compilers correctly and setting the environment variables.

On Linux all of that is typically done for you in advance

Because you guys have no idea what you're doing.

If you mean the windows API is hard, then learn to read.

If you think installing shit is hard, then learn to use the auto installers.

If you think programming is hard... Well, stop programming because the languages don't change between OS.

i am using jupyter-notebook on linux mint.. my theory was that theres a lot more of a scene with the linux community in case you get stuck / need to network

Programming is programming. It is not OS specific unless you are looking for OS specific functions. Hence the mention of WINAPI, and with cygwin POSIX is available on windows.

Like, LIBC is basically universal, ruby and python have their own STD which is the same across all platforms (sans OS specific functions), etc.

If anything programming is harder on linux because you chose an insecure bastardized distro to use.

This post was edited by AbDuCt on Jan 20 2017 11:42pm

Geez... calm down. Midlife crisis?