Best practice: Julia development under Windows?

If you want to develop larger Julia projects, stick to Linux…

For example multi-threaded system image creation only works on Linux. But if you are not doing that often, you can also use Windows, but you loose about 20% performance. Yes, the performance using WSL is better, but I am not sure if you can use graphical interfaces when using the WSL.

If you install Git for Windows (which provides a bash shell) and VSCode and Windows Terminal, Windows feels nearly as good as Linux…

And if you buy a laptop with an “AMD Ryzen™ 7 7840U” CPU or similar you get very fast graphics without the need of a discrete GPU…

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