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5 Convincing reasons to choose Linux for programming

Fum on January 17, 2021

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Chris Scott

This was a good read! Linux is amazing for coding but a lot of people aren't ready to switch from windows. Get your feet wet with WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) Its just the terminal (Bash same as OS X) but It will get you familiar with the file system and you can even install a desktop environment like Gnome or XFCE

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DynamicSquid

That's me! I'm trying to get used to the feel of Linux by using it in a VM.

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Fum

Thanks! I'm not familiar with using WSL but sounds like a good stepping stone before switching to Linux. Thanks for sharing :)

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E.R. Nurwijayadi

What make you productive as a coder is, the tiling window manager.

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Rishit Khandelwal

We can use wsl, but it is never as good as full Linux

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Fahmi Noor Fiqri

I've been using Windows for years and have tried Ubuntu and several other distro for coding and yes, it was faster to code in Linux than Windows. I remember when I have to commit a code it takes about 2-3 times longer in Windows than in Linux, I was surprised because I can reproduce that using WSL.

But the only thing stopping me from using Linux completely is because I rely heavily on Visual Studio. For now I'm quite happy using Windows and WSL.

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potyoma

Please, stop referencing .NET as proprietary technology. It's over it. New versions are cross-platform and officially supported on Linux. dotnet.microsoft.com/

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Fum

You're right. Thanks for this. I've updated the article!

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Jonathan Bouligny

I move to xubuntu recently never going back!