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Yuan Gao

Windows terminal with WSL2. so it's real bash on real linux. I've moved most of my dev work in here because a lot of the stuff I do runs on linux servers anyway, so developing and local testing in WSL2 reduces a lot of possible issues, very often due to slight differences in dependencies. On the plus side, being in a full linux environment means access to not only bash and gnu tools, but also full on linux programs that aren't available if you're running in git bash.

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Madza • Edited

Have you used WSL before WSL2, btw? 👀

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Yuan Gao

yes, and I actually still use both, since WSL has faster Windows file access