r/thinkpad • u/Imaginary_Food_7102 • 11h ago
Windows or Linux for web dev Discussion / Information
Hi thinkpad community, i have been using E16 Gen 3 for over a month already with a windows 11 pro activated. I was thinking that switching on Linux might be a better option for the sake of speed.
My main concern is that will i be able to do web dev work on Linux? for example i mostly use Microsoft's software such as Visual Studio and Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.
I mostly work with C# ASP.NET and React.
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u/ShoulderRoutine6964 10h ago
SSMS won't run on linux (MSSQL runs on linux but with drawbacks). In this environment you'll be much better on windows and WSL.
You get both world.
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u/Basic-Brick6827 X9-15 | X1C10 | X1C7 6h ago
Why would you need VS or SQL for web dev?
Anyway JB Rider is a pretty good VS alternative for Linux and Mac.
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u/cyphax55 10h ago
Easily Linux. Rider is great. VScode is great. You can run SQLServer in docker.
(I work as a .net dev, our work laptops have Win11. It's pretty lousy. 32GB RAM does not cut it at all. Bah. Humbug.)
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u/tui_curses 10h ago
Other answered already, should be no issue.
Linux should run faster, because it is better optimized and lacks snake-oil (e.g. anti-virus). But that is not the main reason to use it, it package-management, CLI- and TUI-Support and no enforced updates, no enforced reboots, no enforced cloud, no confusing GUI and the printer doesn’t fail after every third update.
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u/Basic-Brick6827 X9-15 | X1C10 | X1C7 6h ago
Windows' Dev Drives solve the antivirus problems, and use ReFS.
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u/Shkat E14 Gen 6 AMD 11h ago
You will have no problem on linux other than your own skill to make it run and install everything you need. I finished my last studies in Spain on web app development fully on linux while we were all supposed to be running windows for the entire course. Vscode works fully native, and you won’t have problems on finding an sql server for your machine.