Post #1199414

2026-03-16 05:59 UTC

It really isn’t though. I’ve done in on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Mac and Linux are easier to install stuff but on the whole the experience has been almost identical.

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@R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-03-16 06:54

You’ve used modern Linux and modern Windows and think the experience is almost identical? That’s an uncommon opinion.

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@r1veRRR@feddit.org 2026-03-16 10:14

What exactly are we talking about? Doing Windows related development on Windows is roughly as decent as doing Linux related development is on Linux (or Mac). It’s just that because like 90% of servers are Linux, 90% of development benefits far more from being developed on a Linux-y system. For example, the Windows filesystem is very different. Over and over I’ve had issues with permissions being different, with paths being inconsistent (this happens esp. with WSL) and with limits on path length. You can develop on Windows, but having the test env closer to the real env takes care of so many little headaches.

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