Hello friends! I'm a long time mac user and my trusty 2012 MBP desperately needs upgrading and is finally becoming unusable. The problem is that I'm not in the space financially right now to get another high end mac and I'm seriously considering switching to windows. Are any of you developing on windows using the linux subsystem? I'd be really interested to hear your eperiences using Prisma, Node, React and other JS tooling as well as Python.

i'm developing on windows without any issues. although i'm using docker so it's technically cheating 😛 you shouldn't have any issues since the whole platform is OS agnostic, differences that you might encounter are : • export ENV_VAR=2 === SET ENV_VAR=2 • ./my-path === .\my-path • an so on

Thank you for this! It's much appreciated. I really need to learn more about docker

but WSL also works quite good

there is an issue with WSL when you mount the paths in docker-compose.yml other than that i love it, that was one of the biggest reasons for me to start switching to windows after 10 years 🙂

@woss what has your experience been like switching generally? Have you run in to many pain points?

I develop on my mac and on a windows pc for docker+prisma applications. Honestly, my macbook pro is from 2013 and I’d still prefer to develop on it compared to a brand new windows and this preference is mostly from pain points around docker and windows versus docker and linux/mac. Volume mounts for example are different and you can’t use PWD in the same way to mount your volume in the current directory. You can definitely work around it, but it was kind of a pain to start. I’d maybe consider running ubuntu if a refurbished macbook is above what you can do.