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WSL2 works really well.

Unlikely to work in any corporate environment that I've witnessed.

This is why so many devs I know moved to Mac's. Not because Mac's are necessary that great, who cares about battery life when it just sits on a desk, but because it's the closest you can get to Linux in a corporate environment.

I would take native Linux on an ThinkPad as first option, but denied that I would go for Mac over Windows. I don't find WSL fixed all the other Windows problems such as lack of support for multiple desktops. They exist but the implementation is terrible.

Windows 11 natively supports multiple desktops.

Is it better than 7 or 10? As those "supported" multiple desktops, but was implemented in such a bad way.

Gnome and KDE are so much smoother when it comes to these workflows.

Mac's are closer to BSD than Linux and suck for Linux oriented development. Brew is more ductape than a solution and you basically need to replace all GNU tools since they are horrible out of date.

I completely agree that Mac's suck for development.

Running 32gb laptops to run a few development environments that really should be fine in 16gb is sad.

As part of the crapware image process, WSL (1&2) is often blocked

Firewall bypass. Terrible performances when using Docker while accessing files stored on a Windows folder.

I only use WSL2 at work. Got my full blown NixOS with systems and all in it.

No it doesn't unless you've never ran bare metal Linux and are happy with VM overhead.

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