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> Either I go with Windows, and lose unix

The Linux layer on Windows 10 is quite functional. Of course, this suggestion presumes both that you're OK with Windows as a replacement for macOS for non-dev stuff and that you don't have an immediate need for the handful of things not yet supported by the WSL, but if both of those are true, it might be worth looking into.

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I can vouch for WSL being great. You can even get GUI apps to work perfectly using VcXsrv.

Eh. The first thing I tried to do was run a Webpack build for my pet project, ran into the uv_interface bug [1], got annoyed fast by the lack of terminal features cmd.exe has always been infamous for, and quickly lost interest.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/468

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