How do you use Windows as your primary development environment?

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Due to a strange (probably) hardware bug, I am not able to use a Linux system anymore on my laptop. Now my Dell laptop's warranty only includes Windows, therefore I'm looking to use Windows for a month or so to see if it displays any strange behavior.Now my question is: How do you use Windows as your development environment? As I am used to working with Linux, I could use some tips and best practices in Windows.

3dprintscanner · Accepted Answer

WSL now works wonderfully for W10. Additionally you can get VSCode to run inside WSL rather than in windows so accessing the file system / debugging works a lot better and you're not relying on complex toolchains and dependencies in windows land.https://code.visualstudio.com/remote-tutorials/wsl/run-in-ws...

mister_hn · Answer

You can get WSL2 on latest Windows 10 (1809+) and using Linux again.If you want to get acquainted with Windows, you can use "chocolatey" as package manager for installing all the required software and Visual Studio Community/Professional or Visual Studio Codium (without Microsoft Trackers&trade;) to develop.

brudgers · Answer

What is the hardware bug? In my experience, usually there is a way to make things mostly work until the regression is addressed.
One way of handling the "Windows for warranty" is buying another hard-disk for Linux and putting the old one to the side in case there's problems. Also grub with a dual install.
Generally, Dell isn't going to go out of it's way to deny you warranty coverage (at least for hardware). It's more trouble than it is worth to do anything other than just fix it.
Good luck.

dev_north_east · Answer

My main tools are:Cmder console emulator - https://cmder.net/Visual StudioNotepad++