Pretty bad setup, from the os to everything else, these days wsl and real linux is the way to go .. and oh-my-zsh and other stuff .. nvin plus vscode, only bitwarden is good here ..
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It's ok to have an opinion, but there's nothing "bad" about OP's configuration.
"wsl and real linux" is a bit of an odd phrase, do you mean "wsl OR real linux", or are you advocating having two systems instead of one? I run WSL and separate MacOS and Linux systems myself, but I wouldn't pitch it in a post about a "minimal web development setup".
My differing opinion is that "oh-my-zsh" is pointless bloatware because it doesn't really offer much you don't get out the box with zsh (or bash for that matter).
with wsl2 you run a native linux distro of your choice, macport/homebrew is crap compared to it, and learn nvim, osx is just outdated and slows down development only useful if you need it for ios stuff, also you need virtualization as developer else you have no snapshots etc pp, and oh-my-zsh helps a lot with git ..
Can't agree. Worked over year with WSL1 and WSL2 and few years before on bare Linux distros. Switched to Mac OS fully last year and for me, it is the best setup (zsh, oh-my-zsh, iterm 2, IntelliJ IDE).
WSL2 is still lacking, memory issues (including huge leaks), sync issues, slow I/O, almost every time require running everything inside WSL for "smooth" performance using external xserver software. Not worth it in my opinion.
For the slow I/O with WSL2, disk access to files on the Linux file system is fine, it's when you're trying to access the windows filesystem that causes problems. I'd expect it to get better over time, but I don't use it much myself.
No is not. If you have for example IDE on Windows, and code/git on WSL2 then it will be slow and have some inconsistency between files - I had a lot of problems with that. It's for sure faster than on WSL1, but still not here.
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Pretty bad setup, from the os to everything else, these days wsl and real linux is the way to go .. and oh-my-zsh and other stuff .. nvin plus vscode, only bitwarden is good here ..
I have tried WSL 2 and it works fine, I just like having safari to test things whenever needed.
It's ok to have an opinion, but there's nothing "bad" about OP's configuration.
"wsl and real linux" is a bit of an odd phrase, do you mean "wsl OR real linux", or are you advocating having two systems instead of one? I run WSL and separate MacOS and Linux systems myself, but I wouldn't pitch it in a post about a "minimal web development setup".
My differing opinion is that "oh-my-zsh" is pointless bloatware because it doesn't really offer much you don't get out the box with zsh (or bash for that matter).
with wsl2 you run a native linux distro of your choice, macport/homebrew is crap compared to it, and learn nvim, osx is just outdated and slows down development only useful if you need it for ios stuff, also you need virtualization as developer else you have no snapshots etc pp, and oh-my-zsh helps a lot with git ..
Can't agree. Worked over year with WSL1 and WSL2 and few years before on bare Linux distros. Switched to Mac OS fully last year and for me, it is the best setup (zsh, oh-my-zsh, iterm 2, IntelliJ IDE).
WSL2 is still lacking, memory issues (including huge leaks), sync issues, slow I/O, almost every time require running everything inside WSL for "smooth" performance using external xserver software. Not worth it in my opinion.
YOu do not need an xserver any more on wsl they run native on win11
For the slow I/O with WSL2, disk access to files on the Linux file system is fine, it's when you're trying to access the windows filesystem that causes problems. I'd expect it to get better over time, but I don't use it much myself.
No is not. If you have for example IDE on Windows, and code/git on WSL2 then it will be slow and have some inconsistency between files - I had a lot of problems with that. It's for sure faster than on WSL1, but still not here.