Switching to Windows, is there anything I might miss?

Python and perl is a little less elegant on Windows. Treehouse has some great courses on setting up your python env in Windows, so that will help you overcome. Git is pretty much same same.

Honestly, the only arguement aginst would be if you were an iOS developer, which I can see you are not. So there is not really anything that should stand in your way. Most of your IDE's will be much the same. I use the JetBrains stuff and that is all written in Java so is pretty much identical across platforms. Yay Java! :D

That being said, I am an Apple fanboy through and through. I use windows for work (corporate laptop) and mac/ios for personal. No problem moving between the two multiple times daily.

My only comment about windows is don't sign in to microsoft on windows 10(it just may ruin your life), you can't turn off updates but you can stop them from being installed (but they make it hard to do that). Windows spends so much resources mining you for data now it can really bog the system down. (unless you have a pretty powerful one) I used to love windows. Well XP and 7 anyways.

Hello Jonas,

Windows has a long history of issues with the libraries and tools that most developers want to use. That doesn't necessarily mean they don't work, but getting them installed/updated can sometimes be painful (Ruby/Rails comes to mind). I've tried working on a Rails projects on Windows and it's never been a good experience.

This is mostly due to the success and popularity of Unix and GNU/Linux systems for development. Most of my development on Windows has been for the .NET framework with Visual Studio where those concerns were not an issue.

However, there is hope. Windows could actually become the ultimate development machine thanks to Bash for Windows. It will fill a huge gap for developers who want to use Windows for development. I'm really excited about it. I believe that will be available August 2nd in the Anniversary Update for Windows 10.

I'd be glad to answer any further questions you have on this topic. I've been developing for multiple platforms for many years: GNU/Linux, Mac and Windows.

I hope this helps.

Dual boot a Linux and you'll be golden.

I just wanted to update this thread, in case anyone with this question would stumble on this thread wondering what I did. I fixed the battery and harddrive of my Macbook pro, but still tried the surface book. Now almost 2 weeks later working on it I couldn't be happier. So to anyone wondering, coding in Windows 10 works great!

I hope that might help someone out there.

And thanks for all the great advices I got here!