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Windows with WSL 2 is really good for general development. You can essentially use Windows as a shell of an OS to run certain tools that don't work great on nat

by nickjj 5y ago

Windows with WSL 2 is really good for general development. You can essentially use Windows as a shell of an OS to run certain tools that don't work great on native Linux while spending a majority of your time in a terminal treating the experience as native Linux. Docker is also extremely fast with no volume performance issues. We all know the "other" issues with Windows but besides privacy (which feels disgusting to even say btw), it's really solid, fast and feels ok to use. I do a ton of dev / ops related work on it and don't have too many complaints from a technical standpoint -- lack of a first class tiled window manager is the only big one that comes to mind.

tzs 5y ago
Windows was the most used desktop OS for development before WSL. Here's the 2015 Stack Overflow survey, which also includes the 2014 and 2013 results for comparison [1]. Here's the 2021 survey's OS results [2]. It shows higher WSL usage than the AoC survey, but still only 3%. [1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech [2] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-popular-technologies-operating-system https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-...