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Discussion on: Windows or Linux/Mac : which one is better for development?

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Andras Bacsai

I'm a huge Linux fan/user for 10 years now. I used it everyday on all of my development machines.

I bought my first gaming pc at the beginning of this year, so I've installed Windows on it.

But I thought maybe I could use it for work as well, as it's an 'MHz Monster' - if you know what I mean :). And WOW. I was so surprised how well WSL2 integrated into the operating system. I do not even see that I'm on a Windows machine. I can install whatever I want on the Ubuntu running in WSL2. VSCode is also connecting to that WSL instance. Perfect.

I'm also running some of my development environment in docker, which is perfectly working.

I recommend testing it!

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Rishav Jadon

Wow that's cool to hear. I'm on windows and I've always wanted to explore linux