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Discussion on: Beginner Devs Should Use Linux... Maybe

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Brad

I jumped into Linux before I was even close to ready. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

When I started college most kids where showing up with brand new MBPs, Surface laptops, or even gaming laptops, while I was lugging around a 5+ year old, 15 inch brick that just ran SLOW.

Solution: kill 2 birds with one stone, and dual boot with Linux, specifically the latest Ubuntu. After a weekend of setting it up and working out some kinks I had my Linux install along with windows.
After about 1 semester of "playing around" in Linux I figured out how to do the basics, and committed to full time Linux as I found myself never in windows. Since then I've used Linux as my primary development environment and haven't looked back.

I still use Windows from time to time for other tasks, but Linux still is my main platform.