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Newcomers should go with the platform they know best. |
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Windows has the advantage of a more comfortable debugging environment, but this is usually at a price. |
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Linux, is of course, a lot cheaper. And building code from source is usually much simpler under Linux. But debugging is harder. |
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Both platforms are actively supported and worked on by core developers. |
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 | Other posix platforms are also actively supported, but not to the same extent as Windows or Linux. |
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