Windows vs. Linux

[Aahz]

In article <1154301694.445639.99580 at m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>,
 <noahmd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Long story short, I want to get back into programming, and Python looks
>like a good choice for me to start with, and maybe become advanced
>with.  Right now I run Windows as my main operating system.  On my old
>laptop I ran Ubuntu, and liked it very much; however, my new laptop has
>a Broadcom wireless card, and it's not very Linux friendly.  Is Windows
>an okay enviornment in which to program under Python, or do you
>recommend that I run a dual-boot of Linux or maybe a VMWare install to
>program under Python?

Windows is an excellent environment for Python!  Just Do It.  ;-)

(Despite the prepronderence of Linux programmers in the dev team, there
are probably more Windows Python programmers than for any other OS,
simply because there are more Windows users.)
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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by
definition, not smart enough to debug it."  --Brian W. Kernighan