Most of the open source community uses Linux or Mac for development. Windows is pretty much an afterthought. You even sometimes see "cross platform" projects that don't work on Windows.

But now that you can use WSL for all that development there's much less reason to use Linux in the first place. At my company we have a couple of hundred people using Linux, and we're considering all moving to Windows with WSL because the hardware support on Linux is just too unreliable - random crashes, laptops not going to sleep when you close them, poor thermals, bad memory management, etc.

[–] Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is a similar situation to mine. I tried running Linux on my work laptop, ran into too many issues that made it unreliable. Especially during business trips, when I really needed my laptop to work.

Not to mention that I still needed to use business tools that are only available on Windows. Redacting and signing PDFs in Acrobat, creating images for Windows machines (I’m also the IT department), Autodesk software, etc.

Windows + WSL allows me to get the best of both worlds, with all my Linux apps running alongside my Windows ones on the same hypervisor. I just wish they would support PCI device passthrough, as part of my job involves writing and debugging kernel drivers for some custom FPGA accelerators.

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

I must just be really lucky then? I've been running Linux exclusively for about a decade, including on my laptops and while my most recent laptop is from System76 every laptop I had before this one and all the HW in my desktop was purchased without considering Linux compatibility because I literally haven't had hardware compatibility issues in years. I thought those issues were from Linux of the past and my own experience agrees with that. Weird.

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