BEST Web Dev Setup? Windows & Linux at the same time (WSL)

Also Linux should be colabaret with Microsoft to support windows application on Linux

So microsoft going from office to gaming to software development, then what??, AI?? Just make windows based on unix

Like wtf just use linux? Yall really be out here afraid of free software. Just try it. Its not that hard and its free! Why would you use a closed source non Unix based operating system in 2023, and pay money for it!?!? It blows my fucking mind! 🤯 Windows is written in C# 🤢🤮 It has ads baked into its core ui components. Its goddamn joke and just bad software to its core. You're litterally advertising how its best feature is that it gives you limited access to the real thing..? Like just use linux!

Idk maybe I'm being too harsh. After all what would I do without all of those life change adobe apps! 🤣

Lolz homie legit said the best part of windows is Linux! 🤣🐧

What is the password for sudo
It keeps asking me and I have no idea what is it
Someone pls explain

UMM, Actually VI is not the same as VIM.

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Great video!

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please do this for Application developer

assuming windows 11 works as well?

I need that "developer developer developer..." video :)

Tech tribalism is silly - just use what works for you. Plenty of people starting out their careers get hung up on Mac vs. Windows vs. Linux - it's hammers vs. axes as far as I'm concerned. Let people with niche setups have niche setups.

That said, I've adopted a fairly niche setup for my workflow but I now swear by it. I treat my dev laptop almost like a server. I like a lean Ubuntu/Debian base OS with basically only Chrome and Spotify installed - not even git. I use the web versions of Teams and Outlook, and I then run all my actual environments in VMs with VMWare Workstation 16 (works great but you could also try Gnome Boxes, VirtualBox, virt-manager etc. - VMWare just has a great 'exclusive mode' and handles multiple monitors the best IMO)

I've usually got ~3-6 VMs running simultaneously, e.g.
I've got some Windows 10 Enverprise (90 day trial) VMs for different enterprise clients (each using their own enterprise VPN that I need to connect, a major reason I moved to this niche setup).
I've then got a main Ubuntu development VM for all my Docker/Angular/Java/Python etc. work.
I sometimes run a Amazon Linux 2 VMs for when I need to test that our automation works correctly on clients' AWS machines.
I've been tinkering with a dedicated personal CI setup with TeamCity, it alerts me and only me when something is broken before I merge bad code. You can have good testing practices at an individual level even if you work on a "move fast and break stuff" team.


There's a small set of files that I tend to have on each VM, you can use a host mount or something like Syncthing to help with this.

Treating your dev laptop like a server and virtualizing your workflows is unorthodox but works great. The only real downside is you need plenty of RAM and disk space. VMWare Workstation makes this easy to manage and one great benefit is that I can separately encrypt the disks of all the VMs, important if I need to handle sensitive data. I also backup snapshots of all my VMs to my NAS every night so I'm less likely to lose work. Finally, when I upgrade to a newer machine - I don't have to set everything up, I just transfer my VMs and life goes on (but faster). You could even use Windows as your base OS but it's quite heavy on its own.

Windows is not the ultimate OS for web development because there is no way to use Safari and iOS emulator in it.

Windows really wants to spy on more people

WSL is actually fckn fire. Use it.

I'd rather install linux, and then windows on a VM, so that i just can shutdown this sp.. uuh i mean windows at anytime i want and it doesnt consume all my ram and CPU

Its saying that it is unable to locate package sl.

Negative, still lack of Tiling Windows Manager easy to setup. Linux is far most advanced!.

been using linux for 3 years now, never going back lol.

oh my posh is better suited for windows users rather than oh my zsh

imagine how many ram usage for that setup

Easily set-up my Windows Terminal with WSL thanks to this video. Amazing explanation!

linux + win virtual machine is cool too

As a back end developer using Go, JetBrains GoLand and WSL2 is working so nice together on Windows.
Yes, this is a game changer.

Using Ubuntu for a year or more, didn't know about SL thanks!

But i think there is no need to install windows because thoese soft are already available on linux

About Dock desktop vs cmdline:

That's true (the desktop is convenient & smooth) but............. then it's the same as any other desktop installation UI thingy, you're kinda stuck with, and have to take a scared oath to completely loose your shit and turn into a 0.1X developper if for whatever reason you need to do something without ththat UI thingy later. Plus you loose command history, for stuff where it's convenient to run a command with a bunch of parameters a few times....

So, for my part, I'd stick with cmd line for docker.

I had to install wsl2 for docker. Didn't know what was used for..

Your videos are extremely helpful. I subscribed immediately. You are a remarkable teacher, especially once getting used to your presentation style. Thank you for the content, I look forward to more!

Can I install it in D Drive !?
and how !?

WSL is the best thing that came out of Microsoft in a long time. Windows is finally complete.

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Install Z SHell to use oh my zsh.
I thought oh my bash exists. Sorry, must a the Mandela effect.

Could one use gui for wsl

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Linux is the superior system

Wsl2 is cool and being able to use a tool to get a running desktop and not just a command line is sweet but I'd still rather just keep an extra drive in my PC and boot windows on one and Linux on another. There's a definite slow down even in wsl2 vs doing the same task in an actually Linux environment.

"ok, i'll start learning web development, first let's learn html, css and javascr... WHERE THE FREAK!? WHERE DID IT GO!?"

I understood nothing

please make a video on cybersecurity setup too

Plot Twist: WSL is slow AF and unrealistic for use in daily web development....

I literally run a dual boot machine for this reason.

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This is my setup at work, a large company with super locked down Windows environments. It works well because I at least have root on the Linux side. Windows makes a decent desktop environment.