Linux on the Desktop as a Web Developer

You should try 1password-linux from snap. It's essentially an Electron app but it works fine for me.

I run Linux (Arch) on my personal Dell XPS13. I run Ubuntu 20.04 in a VM at work to do NodeJs/Springboot (backend) development and even in a VM, especially for node, the experience is better than colleagues running bare metal Windows.

Going back to the XPS13 the Linux experience is not perfect.

* the mess with the HiDpi support and font systems. I often go from the laptop docked to a Usb-C hub to using my laptop on my coach. And my external display and laptop screen don't share the same pixel density. And it is a mess to switch from one to the other without hurting my eyes. Fractional scaling is blurry under Wayland or X in Gnome. Also some apps rely on Gtk for font rendering and thus react to GDK_SCALE environment variables but some don't. Some understand the Xft.dpi X server font dpi setting, some don't... I stopped doing fractional scaling of the whole display and just automatically detect which display is connected (thus does not work on both) and change the Gnome font settings

* Worse Battery life. I kept the Windows10 partition just in case and sometimes spend a bit of time on it and I have a much longer battery life on Windows10 doing the same things. On Linux I get 6 to 8 hours, when on Windows it is more between 8 to 10 hours. I think the main reason for that is the lack of off-the-shelf hardware accelerated video decoder in the browsers on Linux (I watch quite a few youtube videos). Yes I know TLP, powertop, etc.

* No driver for the fingerprint reader. It is a shame since the same model is sold by Dell with Ubuntu but the driver is not available. It is something I really like on Windows.

* Worse bluetooth experience. On Windows10, my bluetooth headset or speakers connect instantly, on Linux it takes up to 30 seconds and I usually have to manually force it (completely random)

* More instabilities. Usually after a resume sometimes bluetooth or wifi stop working and I need to reboot (once or twice a week).

* Lack of Wayland compatible apps. (I run Gnome) and some apps do not work and sometimes don't have Wayland equivalent: OBS is buggy on Wayland, polybar (status bar) does not work. I moved back to Xorg but I find it less responsive.

That being said I experimented a bit WSL on Windows10, it is nice but I am still not coming back to Windows 10. I don't like the OS advertising apps that I don't want and WSL feels a bit like a workaround you don't get the full experience, cannot start services, mount filesystems or launch apps with a UI seamlessly.

Having been on Linux the last 6 or so years (with Mac laptops sprinkled in), I’ve been very pleased playing with windows again. So much so that I’m trying to daily drive it just to know what it’s like anymore. Other than a few minor annoyances with WSL2 (such as systemd) it’s been going surprisingly well.

Yes. It was a while ago.

I've worked as a web dev on Linux for nearly 15 years (most of it Ubuntu). My day job requires that I work on Windows 10 and I'm sorry to say this, but from a developer's perspective it does feel like an inferior user experience. To cope I've tried the WLS, but it didn't really do it, then I was able to somewhat cope a bit with Cygwin. Still it's not the same. I miss the extra desktops. I miss the ability to install a proper tiling window manager with sane keybindings (I use i3 so please don't even mention Power Toys). I miss simply configuring stuff with simple text files, instead of pointing and clicking to open layers after layers of windows to simply change one value, which can also turn even the simplest tutorial into a headache (try installing a wsgi server on IIS). I also miss having my configuration respected without agenda, rather than seeing some applications somehow capable of vetoing my choice of a browser, or my language preferences. I miss ubiquitous utilities that are just sort of expected to be there by anything you install, like cron. Oh, how I miss the shell (please don't even utter "PowerShell"), would you believe that I even miss Bash as a language after trying batch files?

I miss a whole lot of other things and looking for replacements on Windows, it's especially annoying that everything that MS produces is promoted as the next best thing to sliced bread, so you're never really sure if the solution you're being sold is just pure shite, or if it's really worth your time. And on that note, I would never believe that I would miss the capricious Linux community, because it doesn't matter how good Canonical gets it on a release, we're guaranteed to have laments about the millions things they got wrong this time. But it's only when you decide to take a stroll on the neighbor's grass that you realize how green yours really is, right?