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by indymike
1480 days ago
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Last year, our entire devlopment team switched to Linux for development. We ditched Mac and Windows. And we discovered something: 1. We were all spending 6-8 hours per week trying bending our host OS to work like Linux. Containers, package managers, compatibility layers, different autocompletes, etc... all do create work. All the adaptations to avoid running Linux also often don't work identically to the real thing (i.e. VM CPU & memory allocation vs. Linux container CPU & memory allocation, installing Postgres on MacOS vs Linux) so there's lots of little learning curves. 2. We spent a lot of time learning how to do things in Windows and MacOS that did not apply to production. Now all the learning "how to make x work" applies to development and production, too. Incidentally, running Podman or Docker on Linux is a much better experience that the simulation via VM that exists on Windows and MacOS. Another plus is that containers behave for developers like they will in production, leading to better decisions about using containers. |
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This is probably the most important point and something that I can wholeheartedly agree with! On Windows, you get the occasional issues with bind mounts or file permissions (e.g. wanting to use a container that has SSH keys in it, but software complaining about 77X access, instead of 700, which you literally cannot change), or even networking.
Whereas everything "just working" on *nix is great.