For years I thought my only options were dual booting or using a clunky virtual machine. Dual boot meant constant reboots, and VirtualBox ate my RAM. Then I discovered Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, and honestly it changed how I work. Now I run a complete Ubuntu desktop right next to my Windows applications. I can code in a native Linux environment, test web servers, and even fire up Linux-only GU
I like servers. Not in a "let me spend Saturday hand-tuning nginx" way. More in a "this $6 VPS is sitting right here and could probably run half my side projects" way. The weird part is that deploying to one still feels more complicated than it should. For a lot of small and medium web apps, the app itself is not the hard part. The annoying part is everything around it: building the app getting it