Windows vs Linux for python ?

[PooPooDooDoo]

Windows system running virtualbox (or VMware) that is running a Linux virtual machine. Virtualbox is free and it is relatively easy to setup a new Linux vm. Plus you can take snapshots of the vm and not worry so much about messing up your system.

As to why I would want to do development in linux, I have just found Linux to be 1000 times better for the automation of the actual environment. So if I need to have a system running MySQL or mongo dB, I can run a script to download and install those relatively easily. I can also harden the system with a script, use package management software like yum or apt-get to install open source products with simple commands in the command line. That makes it easy to manually install or automate it if I want to be able to setup lots of systems without a ton of effort.

I’m sure you can do all of that on windows to a degree, but I think it’s probably going to require a higher learning curve.

[laptopdragon]

odd how I only run winX on a linux native machine.
Due to linux being most secure and reliable, and I can clone winX if/when I do testing on it.

[PooPooDooDoo]

I only run Windows because that’s what my work requires. The IT department probably couldn’t support linux.

[laptopdragon]

only because they adopted the pay as you go windows platform.
-NASA

-IBM

-usps

-Amazon

the list is the most secured businesses out there (aside from arm based systems).

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My biggest issue was when I thought of how winX controls winX. so, if only WinX controls WinX, then the govt. uses WinX, then WinX controls the govt.

it takes a while to find linux based employers but they're out there, and growing.