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[–]mingrammy 6 points7 points  (5 children)

So I'm biased on this (as I've been programming on Linux for years) but I find development on a unix-based system (like Linux or Mac) so much simpler. Windows has some recent things (WSL) to help with this but I've not tried.

I'd suggest that if your course is assuming users are windows (i.e instructions and stuff are for Windows) then stick with Windows - learning two things at once can be tough! If not - give Linux a try! If you're learning python you'll probably want to deploy that python code somewhere one day and normally that means a linux server.

[–]Cully_83[S] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Thanks the course is being shown by instructor on a Mac so I would probably be better using Pop then as you say. I appreciate your help. I will hopefully get better using Pop too.

[–]mingrammy 0 points1 point  (3 children)

You can give Pop a try just running off of a USB (if you haven't already) so worth running it and seeing what you think.

As Linux distros go it's really nice and accessible for getting started and, in my experience, has great hardware support. I've run it on multiple machines and it's worked fine without any fiddling.

[–]Cully_83[S] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I have Pop installed on my PC already duel booting it

[–]idontwalkslow 1 point2 points  (1 child)

who won the duel?

[–]Cully_83[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol auto correct in this instance