I work as a software developer at a company that has been a Microsoft partner at some level for at least the last 17 years. Lately I have found myself drifting more and more to WSL2 to use bash as a command prompt, and various dev tools installed in Linux (because they often just work better in that OS).
It was time for me to get a new workstation at work (the old one wouldn’t take Win11 so with Win10 being end-of-life soon it was time). When it arrived I asked the IT manager what he thought about me installing Linux on it. He was okay with it, as I am the one using it. I also asked the owner / CEO of the company and he was fine with it as well as long as I could still do my job and had the needed tools to communicate and interact with the rest of the team.
I decided to go with Fedora as I’ve been using CentOS / RHEL as servers for years now so I figured why not use their ancestor. Ran with the live USB for a couple of weeks just to make sure everything was kosher and I could indeed do my job, everything looked good so here I am with Fedora 42 installed on my workstation.
And it has been a pleasure so far. Things like JetBrains’ IDEs open almost instantly now (as opposed to taking more than a few seconds on Windows) and everything is just so snappy compared to Windows. So happy to have made the change!
