I have been developer for about 3 years now.I started on windows because that was what i had.I did not really think much of why i was developing this way.I tried many different programing languages and just loved trying out new technologies.One thing though that was always frustrating is just getting everything to work.

Now to be developer your life changes into problem solving and always testing.One day i was watching some tutorials on youtube and this developer changed to linux for development.Now i have setup some Linux servers so was not completely new to linux but I have never had a Linux distro on one of my computers for developing purposes.

So i jumped in and made my laptop dual boot with Windows and Linux. I chose the Elementaryos Distro of Linux and was blown away at how simple and elegant and FAST it was.I started setting up my enviroment and started coding right away.

I was so beautiful the effort it took to get my website on local machine up and running was super minimal compared to windows .In the coming weeks i will be showing my setup and if there is enough interest I will put up some video tutorials showing how to set this up.

So to finish here is my top reasons why i say dump windows and go for Linux to do develpment.

1. Linux os is so much faster than windows.
2. Setting up a simple website with server and database literally takes 2 minutes compared to 15 minutes in Windows.
3. The terminal in Linux is much more powerful.
4. The best of all ITS FREE. Woohooo

So if you have thought about it or never go check out a Linix distro today.

HAPPY CODING :)