Okay, so developing in Windows is just not any fun. As I mentioned before, Vim is my weapon of choice. Vim runs just fine in Windows but not with my workflow. I need bash beneath it for things to work right. And Cygwin just doesn’t cut it. Nor does MSYS.
So I’m back to using Linux when I’m writing code. I use Thunderbird for email with Lightening for the calendar. If I need to deal with real appointments from real people and that sort of thing I’ll boot into Windows and fire up Outlook. Or I’ll use one of the ‘community’ servers we have set up and RDP into that.
Alternatively I can run Linux in VirtualBox pretty well. Unfortunately VirtualBox is rather limited and doesn’t utilize dual monitors yet (at least not that I can see). Maybe VMWare. Dunno yet.
Or someone could volunteer to buy me one of those dandy new 27″ iMacs and I’ll be right where I belong. You know, a premium OS that looks and feels right with *nix underneath. The best of all worlds.
I miss my mac.
Very well said. I share similar impressions.
I miss my Mac too. I left it at my home 1600km away: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mloskot/2053393609/
Hope you get one soon