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		romanovcode on Sept 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows for Linux Nerds > It's hard for Windows to realistically compete with Linux as a developer environment. That's the whole point of WSL

partycoder on Sept 15, 2017 [–]

The WSL is useful if you need Windows as a host system. That's not a universal need. Most of the software I use supports Linux.

Then there's is Wine and finally virtualization. I haven't needed the latter in years.

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