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I'm considering installing Linux on my laptop but I'm unsure if I should start with a virtual machine first. My main use cases are gaming and coding, so I want to make sure it's the right fit.

What are the pros and cons of using Linux for someone like me? Would starting with VirtualBox be a good idea before going all in?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Been a dotnet developer exclusively on Linux for around 7 years now and I've never wanted to go back. Since .net core and Rider windows doesn't really have anything to offer for me. It's different if you're stuck on .net framework of course.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

we do cross platform stuff and I'm 99% of the time working on Linux, now I have to do some .NET core C# coding, was frustrated first with the language support on Linux - until I tried Rider. If I'll have to do more C# going forward I'll consider asking my employer to buy me a Rider license. The alternative would probably be me booting to Windows for that project (which I absolutely hate doing and only rarely have to)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you do that coding for a company, like for a job? I managed a team of .NET developers for a while, and although I don't know anything about C#, much less Windows, it sounded almost impossible to do any Enterprise development without pulling in a .NET framework. I think I did once try to compile one of our applications on Linux, and got stuck on a dependency that was only available on Windows.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do. It's mostly micro services and everything is running .net 6+ at this point. In the beginning I did have to find a few work arounds and tweak some stuff, but it's been a while since I've run into that kinda thing. Everything we make is deployed on linux in production.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Maybe that's it. All of our servers were Windows (except for a couple running other frameworks). The team didn't have any reason to not use the frameworks, so they did.