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how is that better than macos? what kind of sw dev? doesn't macos + iterm2 + brew have all the linux tools one could desire?

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1) Docker works much better within wsl than outside of it. 2) You still deploy to Linux so makes more sense to develop on Linux, too. 3) performance is basically native.

Sure but at that point what's keeping you from using Linux? desktop experience is way more pleasant both on linux and macos than windows.

WSL is great but the only use I see for it is if Windows is forced upon you by company policies.

My employer forces me to use macOS as a company policy… and I like the MacBook but macOS is very much meh.

Because Windows UI is better than anything MacOS or Linux provides. And because everything just works (tm) when it comes to drivers. And hibernate, sleep etc are always there since I don't need to dual boot. And I don't have to deal with buggy Cinnamon scaling experience that just occasionally decides "maybe I won't render things correctly today or just crash the UI when Firefox is launched".

I've ran Windows as the host for my Linux VM for years because it always provided me nicer experience than the other way around. Not to mention games are of course native in that context also (and there's no issues with anticheats).

Windows just is the best desktop for Linux.

Are there any specific games you require Windows for? I've been pretty much fulltime on Linux at home now (still have Windows on a partition but boot into that a few times per year maybe), and play games more or less daily and have only experienced issues with Kingdom Hearts (cutscenes are broken).

Funnily enough, games sometimes run better in the "non-native" context of Proton on Linux (Elden Ring is a notable example, which had the shader compilation stutter on launch on Windows, but much less noticeable on Linux, and no issues with the anti-cheat (EasyAntiCheat) either).

Funny how hibernate and hidpi scaling are two of the things always broken on my windows machine, there is always that corporate software that fails to restore its state after resume and forces you to reboot or that other corporate software that either looks blurry or tiny on 4k displays.

apt-get is larger and better maintained than brew and macports.

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