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I've been happy being on linux.

Windows 10 has the Linux subsystem feature now. You can have a Linux CLI without a VM :)

that would be the WSL I said isnt quite ready for what I do yet

I believed this until I bought a cheap laptop Windows laptop to try it.

It works, technically. But it lacks all kinds of integration with core Windows, to the point where you can't run VS.Code against Python files in the WSL world.

It's easier to run a VM and sync files over SSH, sadly.

What sort of speed hit will you take developing on a Linux VM? I’m thinking of heading that way.

It depends. I used a similar setup for a while, and the performance overhead of the VM was less than the impact of the endpoint protection software intercepting file access when developing directly on the Mac. Very noticeable on stuff like watching JS files or IDE indexing.

Have you tried git bash?