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Discussion on: Here's why software engineers choose Linux over Windows for programming

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Nucu Labs • Edited

Sorry but I disagree with you.

Pre-installed Compilers

This is irrelevant imho, if you're building anything serious you're using custom or specific compilers. If you're working with any other language besides C/C++ you might need to download compilers/interpreters.

Open Source

Windows has open-source software as well. Windows Calculator, Windows Terminal, Powershell Core, Asp.Net Core, C#, Microsoft Roslyn and many more. There are 4.5k repos on Microsoft's Github organization account github.com/microsoft

Community Support

There are .Net and Windows forums and communities as well.

Performance

Not really. I think they're pretty much the same.

Secure

"No antivirus is needed" is a bold claim. I don't think any org will let me work using Linux without installing an AV like Bitdefender or Clam AV. Windows comes with a default AV.

Shell

You can use WSL on Windows, Powershell Core, Windows Terminal, Oh My Posh, FZF, Winget, Scoop and lots of other tools. Windows has evolved a lot.