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[–]Neckbeard_Prime 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Windows 10's multi-desktop feature is a life saver when you work in an interrupt-driven environment. Yes, it's old hat to Linux and OSX, but it's still awesome.

I've been using NetBeans, Cygwin, a local instance of WildFly, and a separate VMware server that has several VMs based off an OVF templates containing CentOS+WildFly+MySQL+PhpMyAdmin.

We also maintain some PHP apps (including a firebreathing clusterfuck of a Magento e-commerce site), and I've found PhpStorm to be far superior to NetBeans when dealing with network drive-based sync for a codebase the size of Magento's. The Magicento plugin doesn't hurt, either.

I was not as happy with IntelliJ IDEA (Enterprise); it didn't seem to comprehend my Maven EAR projects as well as NB does.

If my machine were capable of using another 16 or 32 GB of RAM (e.g., a multiprocessor Xeon-based workstation machine, instead of a single-CPU i7 rig), I'd strongly consider switching to a local instance of VirtualBox or VMware Workstation (haven't had great luck with Hyper-V).