> I personally don't get why any developer would prefer Windows over Linux
I'll offer you one data point, for what it's worth.
We do multidisciplinary work on our workstations. That means electrical engineering (Altium Designer), mechanical engineering (Solidworks+CAM), embedded (Keil, Xilinx, Linux, NVidia Jetson, etc.), FEA (Solidworks Simulation), server-side development (Linux, Python, Django, etc.) and the myriad business documents that can go with all of that.
The traditional setup has been to custom build powerful Windows machines with as much memory as the mobo will support and half a dozen SSD's assigned to specific functions (system, data, library, hardware dev, software dev, virtual machines) and then build a bunch of task-specific virtual machines.
Using multiple (3+) monitors it is easy to live in this multi-OS/multi-paradigm world once you get it all setup.
Not quite using WSL yet but watching its development with great interest.
If all someone is doing is web development it used to be that either an Apple laptop or a dual-boot Windows/Linux machine was the top choice. WSL seems to be displacing Apple in this domain.
I'll offer you one data point, for what it's worth.
We do multidisciplinary work on our workstations. That means electrical engineering (Altium Designer), mechanical engineering (Solidworks+CAM), embedded (Keil, Xilinx, Linux, NVidia Jetson, etc.), FEA (Solidworks Simulation), server-side development (Linux, Python, Django, etc.) and the myriad business documents that can go with all of that.
The traditional setup has been to custom build powerful Windows machines with as much memory as the mobo will support and half a dozen SSD's assigned to specific functions (system, data, library, hardware dev, software dev, virtual machines) and then build a bunch of task-specific virtual machines.
Using multiple (3+) monitors it is easy to live in this multi-OS/multi-paradigm world once you get it all setup.
Not quite using WSL yet but watching its development with great interest.
If all someone is doing is web development it used to be that either an Apple laptop or a dual-boot Windows/Linux machine was the top choice. WSL seems to be displacing Apple in this domain.