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Package managers, cli, customization options, lots of free software (free like free speech not like free beer), pre-installed vim, awesome community
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ajfmo1226yOK but I feel like getting to know all the commands I need sometimes is a little bit irritating @arvind1705 I have used Ubuntu to practice but always fin windows more comfortable so I'm looking for strong reasons to switch my development environment to Ubuntu
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Root830006yDeveloping is possible on Windows, but it's easier and more enjoyable on Linux. Everything just works together better -- and sanely.
Looking at it another way: Should you brush your hair with part of a pine tree, or with a styling brush? The former will work, if not particularly well, while the second is designed for it.
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I considered using "cactus" (painful) or "cpu" (expensive) in place of the pine tree option. -
It really depends per person, I prefer windows for application/game dev, but for webdev I prefer Linux
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I use both. Linux is much nicer once you've gotten a grasp of Bash or zsh. You can get prettier ways to view git tracking. Aliasing. Lots of obvious reasons. The best is configuration. Windows takes a lot of configuration when you're doing certain things, example, MinGW. Where Linux accepts most packages and they talk nicely with limited configuration. Windows requires changing things through their proprietary system, which sucks, when coming back to my first point, you've learned Bash.
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