Drupal for Windows or for Mac OSX.. which is better?

Posted by maxx15 on August 14, 2008 at 7:19am

For work I have to create a Website with Drupal.. I can either use a PC with Windows XP or a MacBook with OSX..
My Question would be with what would it be easier? or which of those two would work better with drupal?

Thank You

Regards

maxx15

Comments

Environment

Posted by Alexei Rayu on August 14, 2008 at 8:48am

Building websites for Drupal takes a number of steps.
Windows and Mac support photoshop.
Windows has a larger choice of free advanced html/css/php editing tools, like notepad++.
But in windows, it's hard to set up a good LAMP server.
I have gone through a number of choices and have so far been most satisfied with Ubuntu Linux, running photoshop cs2 under wine, using Geany as an advanced editor, and LAMP I easily installed by a few clicks from a program manager (Synaptics). But if not for Linux, would probably go with Windows and use some easy-to-install server pack like Denwer.

- Alexei Rayu.

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Use whichever one you are most comfortable with

Posted by prbass on August 14, 2008 at 9:53am

I would recommend you use whichever you are most comfortable with.

Drupal is designed to be web-server independent, but if you choose windows as your development platform, I would advise against using the built in IIS web-server.

I use run xampp as my development server, it comes in all flavours http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Good luck, and happy drupalling!

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