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bog-h • Edited

WSL 2 is not a solution! IT IS SLOW! Check this thread:
github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197

Development on the Windows is a painful process, whole Windows is a painful thing, I can recommend it only for Windows app development.

Hi my name is Bogdan, and I was devops in the past and now I'm SE, I have a lot of experience of work with Linux, Windows, MacOS operation systems.

Linux is very fast and it is the best OS for the backend development and for the docker. But I do not recommend it for the laptops! Linux don't have a good support for the laptops driver, do not have a good Resolution Upscaling and do not have any support of the gestures on the touchpad! :D But it is a good OS for the PC.

Laptops = MacOS. It is good for development, a bit slow with the file syncing on docker, but still better than en Windows or WSL2.

Windows....if you need to create something for it, use it. If you're working on backend or frontend or mobile development, forget about it! 1 Billion of users and Microsoft cannot even fix their update problems.

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Pedro Rodrigues • Edited

Linux don't have a good support for the laptops. That is a wild overstatement, if you have a bleeding edge machine chances are this maybe true, otherwise you're probably good to go.

Upscaling, again if you came in the bleeding edge, you probably have to wait. Blame the manufactures

Libinput provides touchpad gestures.

I use linux, on desktop, laptop, servers. Just recently got a machine with windows, and it is a lost cause honestly.