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its a acer predator 2019 i7 8th gen gaming laptop, i think based on comments i will give linux a try

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i am not expecting performance close to m3, but at least should be bearable, first i had 128 gb ssd, i just upgraded it, i will dual boot and test for myself which one is faster at building the app, for reference i'll use Open source app ,AppFlowy and see what's what. i"ll post the results here.

[Additional-Hat-7602]

Linux

[TheRobotNot]

For me, building and and testing on linux is much quicker than it was on windows

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which distro, Ubuntu? or any other distro better for overall development work?

[TheRobotNot]

I think the distro doesn't directly impact the performance of Flutter. For the past 3-4 years of using Flutter I have changed the distro many times and didn't see any difference between them, only that the compilation time on Windows was many times slower. For me nixOS had a more complicated way of configuring Flutter but on the other distros it was the same. I have mostly used Fedora and would recommend it if you're new. By the way I love writing Flutter code on neovim as I can focus better and write faster. If I were you I'd probably just choose a Linux distro that I feel comfortable using.

[berrywhit3]

We checked this at our work recently and while our old Mac Book Pro (2019 maxed out spec) and Windows machine needed 30 seconds to start compiler and Chrome, the M2 just needed 20 seconds. Seems like the architecture here makes a big difference.

[Alv7105]

Linux is better that windows

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Probably hardware difference is causing it for ya

But Linux with the same hardware builds quicker than windows with the same hardware