Switching to WSL2 with Fedora over plain Fedora install for development?
3 by Karsteski | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Hi, I've finally gotten a software developer job! I've changed careers from being a chemist, which was really draining me. Anyways, I've been doing pretty much all my coding on Linux (Ubuntu -> Pop_OS! -> Fedora), but I run Windows 10 on another SSD as I game as well, and Linux is just no where near a quality user experience for gaming, at least the kind of games I play. Note I also have an NVIDIA GPU lol... I'd like to not have to constantly switch OSes, so I was thinking to use WSL2 to install Fedora w/ no GUI, and just do all my dev stuff through the command line, which I've gotten more familiar with lately. I do my editing using Neovim already, so that should be fine. Has anyone on HN done something similar, and what has been your experience? Once I get a laptop in a few months to a year (hopefully a Framework laptop!), I'll use Fedora on there as well. There's also a part of me that very much dislikes contributing to Microsoft's push to pull Linux users over, but at the end of the day I just need to get shit done :|

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