Which operating system would be better for web development

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It is true that WEBstorm is not free but is the best product I used till now , and they have free lincense for students .

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Moving to another operation system can be difficult itself. Different control, different drivers for external devices (printer, scaner, modem etc…), different file formats ,programs, different structure of files in disk…So think about it before moving do not get into troubles
The simplest moving for web developing, when you use primary online tools Like here freecodecamp, codepen, and many others

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Hi, it is a bit misleading that it is free for students, WEBSTORM that is. It is free for students to formal institutions that is acknowledge by JetBrain. Basically no university or college e-mail address, formal agreement in between JetBrain and the institution you study with or a formal letter acknowledging you are student, you cannot get a free license. So basically you cannot use it if you use FCC…

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Ubuntu is the best operating system for web development.

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If your budget enough to buy Mac then I’ll always recommend you for it. But budget is the problem for you then Ubuntu is the best choice.
Currently I’m on Ubuntu it’s very clean and fluent OS.:heart_eyes:

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You can install the Linux version of Visual Studio Code, which provides most all of what you’d use in full Visual Studio. I prefer it over Sublime, Eclipse and others.

My beef with my Linux laptop (Mint 20) is trying to configure and run Apache2 natively. You’d think that on Linux that’d be a piece of cake, but getting a Laravel instance running is a real pain, but super easy on Windows with Laragon. Also I use SourceTree for Bitbucket version control and repository, and it’s Windows or Mac only :frowning:. I’m hoping the built in version control in VSCode will be sufficient for my ongoing projects.

Still working on it as I really want to use a Linux laptop (after decades of Windows dev). On my 3rd OS reinstall, still trying…

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