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Discussion on: Mac or linux or windows for development work?

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Slavius

Yet still the only reasonable operating system to develop Docker enabled solutions is Linux. On Windows, docker runs inside a Linux VM that is running on background eating your resources and slowing down your development machine. The same applies to Mac. Another 2 layers of abstraction (VM + Docker) does hurt performance unless you invest into the absolute beast of a workstation or laptop... Pretty much unjustifiable investment to buy overpriced HW to be able to comfortably develop SW that could have been done with half the budget running Linux distro...