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Discussion on: Developing on Windows: Docker, Linux VM, WSL or Cygwin?

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Adrian B.G.

I tried to do web dev on Windows 10 in 2018. I spent more then 40h on stackoverflow, github issues and google. Bottom line, because is not a popular platform for devs many libraries had issues and I ended up using C9 IDE for some nodeJS projects.

Docker had a missing feature on Windows, I forgot which one. WSL is useless because of the file system limitations, I could not put the project files with the IDE running in windows space.

Any container/VM will add a layer of complexity on debuging mostly and made everything a lot more complex.

I would deal with those hardware compatibilty issues rather than tring to use windows for dev.