Front-end developer here who has worked with Umbraco developers in the past and decided to take a plunge himself to learn this amazing CMS!
Currently, my primary workstation is a MacBook Pro. However, I understand that Umbraco works the best on Windows.
Now, the question is, what version of Windows would be the best to work with Umbraco? I like Windows 10 UI and overall it seems a good OS.
However, Microsoft being Microsoft, I am afraid there will be unnecessary problems when developing on it. Thus, would Windows 7 perhaps be a safer choice? Could you advise on the matter? I will go with any platform that's as pain-free as possible and will simply allow the development to get done.
As a fellow Macbook user, I can recommend VMFusion for a Windows environment. I'm sure Parallels has similar functionality that allows you to share folders/desktops which is cool as I can run Sublime and all my usual grunt goodness with OSX for Frontend stuff then switch to VMFusion for any Server-side business.
Currently running Windows 8 w/
Visual Studio 2015 community
IIS 7.5 for localhosting
Best OS for Umbraco development
Hi guys,
Front-end developer here who has worked with Umbraco developers in the past and decided to take a plunge himself to learn this amazing CMS!
Currently, my primary workstation is a MacBook Pro. However, I understand that Umbraco works the best on Windows.
Now, the question is, what version of Windows would be the best to work with Umbraco? I like Windows 10 UI and overall it seems a good OS.
However, Microsoft being Microsoft, I am afraid there will be unnecessary problems when developing on it. Thus, would Windows 7 perhaps be a safer choice? Could you advise on the matter? I will go with any platform that's as pain-free as possible and will simply allow the development to get done.
Cheers!
There's absolutely no problem with Windows 10.
Hi Karolis,
As Sebastiaan says there is no problem running Umbraco on Windows 10. I am running Umbraco on a MacBook Air, using Parallels Desktop https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/getting-started/setup/install/running-umbraco-on-a-mac
In Parallels Desktop I using the manally install approach. https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/getting-started/setup/install/
Hope this helps,
/Dennis
Thanks guys, good to know! :)
Hi Karolis,
have developed for/with umbraco in windows 7/8/10.
So use what you like the most.
Regards David
As a fellow Macbook user, I can recommend VMFusion for a Windows environment. I'm sure Parallels has similar functionality that allows you to share folders/desktops which is cool as I can run Sublime and all my usual grunt goodness with OSX for Frontend stuff then switch to VMFusion for any Server-side business.
Currently running Windows 8 w/ Visual Studio 2015 community IIS 7.5 for localhosting
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