Controversially, I have a better development experience on Windows using msys2 + zsh (basically "git-bash" on steroids). I would put that development experience almost on par with MacOS.
WSL2's virtualized workflow just causes too many issues for me. WSL1 was better IMO but it wasn't significantly better than msys2 and also had issues (like you still need remote development tools to mount codebases inside editors) - unless you want to run/develop Linux binaries while on Windows.
For anything that isn't making basic non containerized applications (simple web applications, web servers), Windows is pretty good.
For anything more involved, requires multiple containers/compose/etc, I prefer Linux as it has the tools I need available natively and no gotyas or performance penalties.
That said, credit to Microsoft on WSL2. The auto-scaling hardware provisioning inside the VM has made containerized workflows on Windows much better. To me, it's just not better than running Linux inside VMWare/Hyper-V/VBox and "DIY"ing WSL2 yourself, something I had been doing for years before WSL2 anyway. WSL2 is more fool-proof then hand-rolling a Linux VM, so there is that.
WSL2's virtualized workflow just causes too many issues for me. WSL1 was better IMO but it wasn't significantly better than msys2 and also had issues (like you still need remote development tools to mount codebases inside editors) - unless you want to run/develop Linux binaries while on Windows.
For anything that isn't making basic non containerized applications (simple web applications, web servers), Windows is pretty good.
For anything more involved, requires multiple containers/compose/etc, I prefer Linux as it has the tools I need available natively and no gotyas or performance penalties.
That said, credit to Microsoft on WSL2. The auto-scaling hardware provisioning inside the VM has made containerized workflows on Windows much better. To me, it's just not better than running Linux inside VMWare/Hyper-V/VBox and "DIY"ing WSL2 yourself, something I had been doing for years before WSL2 anyway. WSL2 is more fool-proof then hand-rolling a Linux VM, so there is that.