Benefits of Switching Windows to Linux System
For web development, any OS is good to work. But here I am pin pointing some points why its better to use Linux OS system rather than Windows OS.
First Benefit, As we know mostly all production servers are Linux based, So its better if your local development system shouldn’t vary to much with targeted production system. The least is the difference the less problems you may encounter.
For me, as a Windows user since my starting career days switching to Linux system was demand of a project recently last month. That was live website deployed on CentOS production server and having some server issues, I need to troubleshoot that. So I take this opportunity to dirty my hand in Linux system thoroughly. I need to create replica of production server into my local. And by using Virtual Box installed CentOS7 in my windows system. I wrote all that story here in my blog.
Ultimately within 5 days, I was ready to work in Linux system and made my mind to pursue my development in Linux.
The second benefit, you can call yourself Server Administrator (flaunting), as setting up server with nginx/httpd, creating server blocks, installing database, setting process manager (to monitor nodejs processes) on command line gives you feeling of Administrator.
Third Benefit, I used to of vim now. Vim is for developers who don’t need any fancy editor and just want to focus on their code to create reliable apps or anything creative. Yes you need to do some customization to make it friendly for you. Some of it are syntax highlighting, Line numbers (to easy troubleshoot code), code indentation.
You can follow this link to customize your vim.
For me, I love to work in Linux environment after using windows environment. Future is Linux :)
