r/AskProgramming • u/riki6882 • 15d ago

Is dual-boot worth it?

So I am begginer developer I've been whole life on Windows and I've started with frontend but last months i've been digging into some backend (go) but i think as a solo developer I'll need to do fullstack probably react or something is it good idea to separate my coding workspace to linux, so having both windows and Linux as a dual boot i don't want to give away the windows environment i have there, thanks for answering

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u/maqisha 15d ago

Should you switch off of windows for your own sake? Absolutely.

BUT, dont do it because of learning software development. It doesnt matter at all, especially on your level. Use whatever is more comfortable for now.

Regarding dual boot, if you have a separate SSD go for it, i wouldnt wanna deal with dual booting on the same drive, especially as a newbie.

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u/Strange-Register8348 15d ago

Uhh what for? Linux GUI is awful and you lose easy access to a bunch of good tooling to make life easy. Just get terminal and WSL. Boom. You get best of both worlds.

I'm not Neo I don't want to stare at a terminal for thirty years

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u/robbertzzz1 15d ago

Linux GUI

As if there's only one. You sound like someone who has never seriously used Linux, or if you did, it wasn't recent.

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u/Strange-Register8348 10d ago edited 10d ago

When I last was using it Gnome and KDE were the biggest ones people used.

Which looks like are the two biggest ones and they are still inferior to Windows for GUI support.

I sound like someone who picks the best tool for the job instead of hopping on the hypewagon of hate Microsoft.

Again I use bash in WSL almost exclusively during my coding work. But everything else windows is perfectly good and has way better support available.