While I don't mind a specialized setup for work, you often don't really have a choice there or it comes with a lot of corporate pain. Just using whatever your team is using is the way of least friction.
At home I'm using my computer also for gaming and Windows is again simply the way of least friction.
I've run a hardware switch for my hard drives for a few years to switch between Linux and Windows (effectively cutting off power from some of my drives). However, this means I have to fully shutdown the system to switch environments and I saw myself mostly rather spin up a Ubuntu VM in Windows for personal projects.
I hope WSL2 brings the best of both worlds with the least friction.
Running desktop Linux on VM is horrible in my experience. Eg. Eclipse lags out.
I had problem with Windows randomly wrecking the Ubuntu boot sector on separate HDs, but using physical switches seems like a good idea! I'll try that.
At home I'm using my computer also for gaming and Windows is again simply the way of least friction.
I've run a hardware switch for my hard drives for a few years to switch between Linux and Windows (effectively cutting off power from some of my drives). However, this means I have to fully shutdown the system to switch environments and I saw myself mostly rather spin up a Ubuntu VM in Windows for personal projects.
I hope WSL2 brings the best of both worlds with the least friction.