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Is greater comfort with Windows a good enough reason to switch from PHP to ASP.NET?

4th December 2013

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Learning Linux really isn’t that hard, and it will dramatically increase your potential horizons as a programmer. Install Ubuntu on a virtual machine on your laptop and start running through some tutorials.

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