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I did and its fantastic if u use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) which let's u actually just use a headless Ubuntu within windows seemless integrated.


Looks interesting. Can you go into some detail on what your workflow is like? Is your dev environment pure Linux then, able to install everything in aptitude, etc?

How does using an IDE like IntelliJ work?


Has disk I/O gotten better with WSL? I tried moving from MacOS to Windows, but WSL was just too slow because of the I/O issues.


This is the real issue with WSL. I also tried to move to Windows with WSL but any heavy IO operations (npm install for example) that would take < 1 minute natively took 10 minutes on WSL. I thought I could just use virtual machines within Windows instead, but every configuration I tried had short comings and I just couldn't get a productive work environment up and running so I've switched back to Mac.




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