Ask HN: Has Anyone Switched from Linux to Win10 Linux Subsystem for Development?

#1

Post by throw20161123 » Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 8:52 PM UTC

In the past, I dual-booted with Ubuntu and Win7. Development was on Linux with certain apps (Office, etc) on Win 7.

I'm about to get a new laptop with Windows 10 Pro, and wondering whether the Linux subsystem offers enough of the Unix ergonomics to get stuff done.

Re: Ask HN: Has Anyone Switched from Linux to Win10 Linux Subsystem for Development?

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Post by romanovcode » Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 4:12 PM UTC

Unfortunately for the most part it will not suffice. For example I tried to run Node and Go applications and they did not work properly.

Node had error with `pm2` package which is needed if you want to launch multiple applications a la "microservices".

Go had problems with `go get` on sqlite database.

Note that this was about two months ago, maybe things changed by now. I am very happy with Win10 in general, but that is because I use C# and do not need Linux for developing.

Re: Ask HN: Has Anyone Switched from Linux to Win10 Linux Subsystem for Development?

#3

Post by freestockoption » Fri, Jan 13, 2017, 8:55 PM UTC

It works decently for me. I had to get on the Windows Insider for beta Windows builds because the stable only has Ubuntu 14. Beta has 16.

Re: Ask HN: Has Anyone Switched from Linux to Win10 Linux Subsystem for Development?

#4

Post by johnnycarcin » Sat, Jan 14, 2017, 7:27 PM UTC

romanovcode wrote: post #2

Unfortunately for the most part it will not suffice. For example I tried to run Node and Go applications and they did not work properly. Node had error with `pm2` package which is needed if you want to launch multiple applications a la "microservices". Go had problems with `go get` on sqlite database. Note that this was about two months ago, maybe things changed by now. I am very happy with Win10 in general, but that…

You might want to try again, maybe with an insider build. I had some issues with go because some Linux system calls had not been implemented. They were added in an insider build that I installed and since then I've been issue free.

The I/O performance is still a bit lacking though.