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VSCode + WSL makes Windows awesome for web development

David Heinemeier Hansson

Windows actually got good for web developers. Between VSCode , WSL , and Intel’s latest desktop chips, I’ve been living with a PC for over a week that runs my programming tests faster than an M3 Max, ships with an excellent window manager out-the-box, and generally feels like a completely viable alternative to macOS for working with the web.

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How to Begin Programming on Linux Platform

The Crazy Programmer

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last decade, you know that Linux has pretty much taken over the enterprise business world. From web servers, frameworks, clouds, containers, AI, and so much more, Linux powers it all. Because of this, businesses need programmers who can develop both for and on the Linux platform.

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I could have been happy with Windows

David Heinemeier Hansson

And when I did, I learned that Windows has turned into a wonderful web developer's platform thanks to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). I'm not going to lie and say I loved everything about Windows. Only to fall in love with a quirky piece of hardware from a small company called Framework shortly thereafter.

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Linus Torvalds Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer who is best known as the creator of the Linux kernel and the co-founder of the Linux Foundation. His Master’s Degree was awarded for work done on the Linux kernel, which is one of the most popular open-source operating systems today. Linux and Other Contributions.

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DockerCon 2022 Recap: Docker Extensions, Linux, and 10x Engineers

Daniel Bryant

There were a bunch of product launches, such as Docker Extensions, Docker Desktop for Linux, and more. indeed, I was a happy Linux user for many years until I got tempted with the shiny Mac hardware! Until recently, although Docker ran on Linux, you didn’t get quite the same experience as you did on Mac or Windows.

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What’s Free at Linux Academy — May 2019

Linux Academy

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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Deploying a Sitecore instance on a “local” Kubernetes (k8s) setup

Perficient

So the idea was have a POC of a local environment on my Windows 10/11 PC, with full blown Kubernetes, running Sitecore. I will go through each and briefly discuss them – Minikube Minikube seemed a likely solution, as it offered running k8s on a windows pc. Also getting a windows node in operation was not a straight forward thing.

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