I use linux for all my work perl/ruby stuff and I use Windows for all my home perl/ruby stuff. The big question: are these scripts you are running yourself or

I use linux for all my work perl/ruby stuff and I use Windows for all my home perl/ruby stuff. The big question: are these scripts you are running yourself or deploying? running yourself it's not that big a deal, because you can fix headaches as you hit them. Expect to be running CPAN a lot to grab modules. Expect to be re-writing any system calls to use similar functions in the language (your scripts will be better for it). It is WAY easier to run linux on a virtual machine than it is to develop under Windows. Windows has a million and one quirks that will have you screaming if you're used to coding on linux. If you have to deploy on Windows, I generally use perl2exe or rubyscript2exe to create a standalone exe -- usually less painful then trying to get machines to have matching perl distributions.