Richard Davey wrote:
Sure, but you're in the minority*, so what do I care? :) * I just took the Zend PHP IDE research poll, and at the end it gives you the chance to view the stats of everyone else who took the poll. Interestingly, 70% of them use Windows XP for development. I actually use a combination of Vista and OS X, which puts me in the 11% and 19% categories respectively.
I find it funny that the addition of the numbers above would logically put me in the 0% category.
My $0.02...I use Linux almost 100% of the time at work, and consider myself to be a "linux guy". That said, I disagree with people who discard Windows as an option. If you develop in PHP, chances are pretty good that more than 85% of the people you're developing for will use Windows to view your end result. In my book, that makes a WAMP workstation/laptop a pretty good self-contained development environment.
"Argumentum ad populum" doesn't apply in the usage-for-development case. It's not asking "If everyone else jumped off a bridge would you jump too?" It's asking "If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you design your bridge with a soft fluffy landing spot?"
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