PKPKop·Jan 28, 2025Submission
Microsoft Dev Home going away in May 2025
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devhome
The new Dev Home experience for Windows!
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What it is
The new Dev Home experience for Windows!
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Mar 2024 | 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Apr 2024 | 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2024 | 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2024 | 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2024 | 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2024 | 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2024 | 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2024 | 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2024 | 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2024 | 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesFor Developers on Windows 11, depending on what you think of Microsoft's "Preview" status, the growing power tool here in this space is Windows Dev Home: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-home/
One of the key pieces of Dev Home is Machine Configuration via WinGet Configuration files [1], which are an upgrade from PowerShell DSC, if you've tried that for server configs, with increased support for installing software from WinGet, cloning git repositories (to Windows Dev Drive if you want to allow that). These config files are just YAML files so you could very easily offer starter templates and also allow developers to customize them based on their own preferences. (Also as YAML they could be source controlled in git themselves.)
Some sample configuration files: https://github.com/microsoft/devhome/tree/main/docs/sampleCo...
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osoft has been iterating on Dev Home pretty rapidly and adds new features regularly (relatively recently it added support to applying the same configuration files to building new virtual machines either locally under Hyper-V or remotely with Microsoft Dev Box).
I've not yet seen a company try to use WinGet Configuration and Dev Home as a company-wide initiative, but I have seen some growing "bottom up" usage as Developers like myself adopt parts of it for our own multi-device needs or virally share YAML snippets among each other for common corporate repos and tools.
[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/co...
Dev Home Feature Exploration: WSL Page
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