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Comment by cassepipe | Hacker News Reader

If you're a dev or CS student in 2021, there is really no excuse not to be running Linux. I installed Linux Mint on various old machines and on the newest one too. Took half an hour, an old usb pen drive, and it just works. At the high price of 0 bucks. If you really need windows, the installer takes care of dual booting.

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If you aren't running * my preffered software * on your desktop in 2021 you have no excuses and you don't deserve being called a developer.

It's interesting to see comments like "It's 2021 why can't you get Linux, you should or you are not qualified for a dev or even a CS student".

Though I manage my own cent VM, I'm really satisfied with my Windows environment, I can code in so many Languages and do so many things swiftly and easily on my delicately tinkered OS, why would I give it up to just code Crystal?

I must have been ahead of time then. For me there was already no excuse back in 1999 when I installed a "Black Hat" distro booting from Floppy to have CD-Rom drivers and successfully made the transition from a 1.something kernel to 2.something without breaking anything.

You don't even need a dedicated physical machine.

There's WSL and cloud servers are so cheap I don't see a reason to complain it doesn't work easy on Windows.

Yeah, I can bet plenty of graphics programming and game devs university degrees are soooo interested into running Linux.

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