Hi Michan!
Thank you for making it that easy I've been all over the internet to get all these info. everything is working fine on my laptop now.
I'm new to programming "Flatiron School" too, starting soon.
the school is asking for a Mac for the Bootcamp but I don't like/can't afford a Mac now. I have a high end Surface Book i7 16 512 dGPU which is amazing!
how is your experience going through the bootcamp using windows?
not sure if I should sell my surface and buy a Macbook pro?
Naval Academy Graduate (Systems Engineering), former Submarine Officer. Currently getting my MS in Computer & Electrical Eng, and recently graduated Flatiron's Software Engineering bootcamp.
Location
St. Louis, MO
Education
BS Systems Engineering, USNA
Work
Technical Coach, Software Engineering at Flatiron School
Hey man, I have a Mac and a Windows, both are working fine for me. I'm in the Rails section and haven't had any problems with my Windows using WSL. While testing this procedure I also started a React project and there were no obvious problems. There is a Flatiron beta cohort right now with a few students testing my setup to make sure it works through the whole curriculum, and if they don't hit any snags Flatiron is supposedly going to make using WSL an official supported environment. So, long story short I would say that while not "officially supported" by Flatiron, if you like your laptop and have WSL running on it with no problems, you should be fine and I don't see any reason you should sell it for a Mac.
Thank you so much!
I was just googling any good deals on Macs, now I can have some peace!
i did factory reset yesterday to have a clean windows and WSL, went through the steps here and everything looks great.
I'm starting tomorrow (will go with my surface) and I'll check with the instructors. will update in a reply here.
Thanks again
this was really helpful!
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Hi Michan!
Thank you for making it that easy I've been all over the internet to get all these info. everything is working fine on my laptop now.
I'm new to programming "Flatiron School" too, starting soon.
the school is asking for a Mac for the Bootcamp but I don't like/can't afford a Mac now. I have a high end Surface Book i7 16 512 dGPU which is amazing!
how is your experience going through the bootcamp using windows?
not sure if I should sell my surface and buy a Macbook pro?
Hey man, I have a Mac and a Windows, both are working fine for me. I'm in the Rails section and haven't had any problems with my Windows using WSL. While testing this procedure I also started a React project and there were no obvious problems. There is a Flatiron beta cohort right now with a few students testing my setup to make sure it works through the whole curriculum, and if they don't hit any snags Flatiron is supposedly going to make using WSL an official supported environment. So, long story short I would say that while not "officially supported" by Flatiron, if you like your laptop and have WSL running on it with no problems, you should be fine and I don't see any reason you should sell it for a Mac.
Thank you so much!
I was just googling any good deals on Macs, now I can have some peace!
i did factory reset yesterday to have a clean windows and WSL, went through the steps here and everything looks great.
I'm starting tomorrow (will go with my surface) and I'll check with the instructors. will update in a reply here.
Thanks again
this was really helpful!