I use it a lot - I use my main rig for gaming and general stuff, but also need to be able to program things; rather than dealing with dual booting and the headaches it brings (including limited hardware support), I use docker with WSL2.
I am able to launch VS Code or PhpStorm on my local, have it remote into WSL and run things how they’re meant to be ran on a Linux box, without dealing with installing windows specific variants.
This makes working with things like Laravel/Composer a lot easier and with everything built on docker, deploying to prod is as simple as a docker image push to my registry of choice.
I also enjoy the benefits of not having a bunch of dependencies sitting around - drop the container and you’re system is as clean as it was before
I understand that this doesn’t work for everyone but I’m kinda the reverse. My entire workflow relies on Linux, but I occasionally play video games. I’d say any game without aggressive anti cheat works fine on Linux nowadays.
I’ve not been able to get full performance of games on Linux; then you add on lack of support for mouse/keyboard/headsets and it just becomes easier to have a windows setup to play games
I use it a lot - I use my main rig for gaming and general stuff, but also need to be able to program things; rather than dealing with dual booting and the headaches it brings (including limited hardware support), I use docker with WSL2.
I am able to launch VS Code or PhpStorm on my local, have it remote into WSL and run things how they’re meant to be ran on a Linux box, without dealing with installing windows specific variants.
This makes working with things like Laravel/Composer a lot easier and with everything built on docker, deploying to prod is as simple as a docker image push to my registry of choice.
I also enjoy the benefits of not having a bunch of dependencies sitting around - drop the container and you’re system is as clean as it was before
I understand that this doesn’t work for everyone but I’m kinda the reverse. My entire workflow relies on Linux, but I occasionally play video games. I’d say any game without aggressive anti cheat works fine on Linux nowadays.
I’ve not been able to get full performance of games on Linux; then you add on lack of support for mouse/keyboard/headsets and it just becomes easier to have a windows setup to play games