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I primarily develop on Linux. I used to use Linux as a primary OS and sometimes dual boot in Windows. However, I have since transitioned to using Windows direc
by jerrygenser 3y ago
I primarily develop on Linux.
I used to use Linux as a primary OS and sometimes dual boot in Windows. However, I have since transitioned to using Windows directly and WSL2. It is seamless overall.
There are a few edge cases, e.g. it was as little annoying to set up LUKS encryption and it's a lot easier to just use BitLocker. Other minor edge cases with permission of volumes that are mounted from Windows into Linux.
Further, there are some nuances around networking, especially if you are running docker in WSL2.
Once you get over these hiccups, it's quite comfortable.
- mattfrommars 3y agoMay I know what kind of development do you do specifically for Linux from Windows? Honestly, all personal projects that I do can be easily be done on Windows since web dev is agnostic. I do run the apps on Linux machine which is taken care by Docker images. I played with WSL2 and it's interesting to see Windows can directly access Wsl2 Ubuntu directory. I'm sure it has limitation such as once I tried LLM model and WSL2 lacked support for AMDGPU, therefore it did not have any GPU acceleration.
- jerrygenser 3y agoIt's more that Linux is a better dev environment than windows in general. I develop in docker so it's not platform dependent. I am doing UI,backend API services, ML research, ML services