I've always developed in a Windows environment, but I've always been fascinated by the Linux world, so much so that most of my projects were then deployed on Linux. What's always disappointed me, however, is how Windows handles the file system with heavy loads related to databases or uncompiled runtime code. For this reason, despite developing in Windows for many years, I've used Linux virtual machines (VMWare or VirtualBox) only for database servers.
I've used many IDEs, moving from simple Notepad to the Visual Basic IDE to Eclipse to NetBeans, and finally landing on Visual Studio Code. VSCode is the perfect environment for what I'm doing now, using the most modern languages and development tools. In particular, I believe Docker was a turning point, not just for me but for the entire developer community. So I installed Docker Desktop and started developing my first projects. I created my own stacks, using vscode with remote devcontainers, but I quickly realized that the system was slow and unreliable, with crashes, slowdowns, and excessive memory usage. I was envious of other developers using Linux or Mac, where everything "seemed" to work perfectly:
Responsiveness
Very fast file system volumes
