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I switched to Windows with WSL for all personal work about a year ago. I had been using Lubuntu (Lfce) for years, but wanted to give it a shot. There are some r

I switched to Windows with WSL for all personal work about a year ago. I had been using Lubuntu (Lfce) for years, but wanted to give it a shot. There are some rough edges (file system permissions can be weird if you're sharing files between the host and Linux), but it has been great and I've gotten comfortable with it. One thing to be aware of is many devs will want at least Windows 10 Pro edition ad you can't use Home as a docker host. I didn't feel bad paying $100 for the upgrade though.

xnyan 7y ago
Just an FYI, if somebody wants a legitimate license of windows 10 pro (well, pretty legitimate) eBay vendors sell “OEM” keys which have been pulled from scrapped hardware for a for dollars. If you’re getting audited by Microsoft this is probably not OK, but I have never had any problems with it for personal use. There are also numerous ways to get upgrades from 7 to 10, your employer might offer etc. etc. Microsoft is being pretty liberal with windows 10 licenses these days, even pro.
yingw787 7y ago
No hypervisor support for Windows Home is pretty insane. Ran into this problem with a friend's laptop during a hackathon a year or two ago. Wonder if ripping that out makes QA faster.
- time0ut 7y ago
  I'm sure a big piece is Microsoft thinking "most users don't need this so we can get away with charging the few who do". I have trouble feeling outrage because it is only $100 to upgrade. I've paid almost that much for a text editor.
  - yingw787 7y ago
    I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. So many students and future programmers use Windows Home (I did as a kid), and Microsoft would throw away the opportunity for them to play around and lock them in. Now I can't imagine using Windows Home to program. $100 seems pricey for a text editor, my friend. Is it IntelliJ or PyCharm? Why not VSCode + Sourcegraph?
    - time0ut 7y ago
      It was Sublime Text 2 and 3. VSCode didn't exist yet. You do make a good point re: Windows 10 Pro. I hadn't thought of it from that perspective.
kristianp 7y ago
Docker for WSL2 will be supported with windows home edition. There was an announcement recently : https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-desktop-for-windows-home-is-here/ https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-desktop-for-windows-home-...

xnyan 7y ago

Just an FYI, if somebody wants a legitimate license of windows 10 pro (well, pretty legitimate) eBay vendors sell “OEM” keys which have been pulled from scrapped hardware for a for dollars. If you’re getting audited by Microsoft this is probably not OK, but I have never had any problems with it for personal use. There are also numerous ways to get upgrades from 7 to 10, your employer might offer etc. etc. Microsoft is being pretty liberal with windows 10 licenses these days, even pro.

yingw787 7y ago

No hypervisor support for Windows Home is pretty insane. Ran into this problem with a friend's laptop during a hackathon a year or two ago. Wonder if ripping that out makes QA faster.

time0ut 7y ago
I'm sure a big piece is Microsoft thinking "most users don't need this so we can get away with charging the few who do". I have trouble feeling outrage because it is only $100 to upgrade. I've paid almost that much for a text editor.
- yingw787 7y ago
  I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. So many students and future programmers use Windows Home (I did as a kid), and Microsoft would throw away the opportunity for them to play around and lock them in. Now I can't imagine using Windows Home to program. $100 seems pricey for a text editor, my friend. Is it IntelliJ or PyCharm? Why not VSCode + Sourcegraph?
  - time0ut 7y ago
    It was Sublime Text 2 and 3. VSCode didn't exist yet. You do make a good point re: Windows 10 Pro. I hadn't thought of it from that perspective.

kristianp 7y ago

Docker for WSL2 will be supported with windows home edition. There was an announcement recently : https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-desktop-for-windows-home-is-here/ https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-desktop-for-windows-home-...