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I am running a Windows 7 machine for development at the moment. Is it best practice to develop on a virtual Linux machine locally so that your development environment is closest to your production environment? Or is this more hassle than it's worth?

Would like to hear others' opinions and views on best practice.

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Develop what? Straight HTML? Perl? PHP? Ruby? – EightBitTony Dec 19 '11 at 12:43
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Questions regarding opinions on best-practices, especially in the absence of well-documented industry-wide practices, tend to get very subjective, very fast. And are therefore a poor fit for the StackExchange sites. – sysadmin1138♦ Dec 19 '11 at 12:48
@EightBitTony I am developing NodeJS web apps. – pagewil Dec 19 '11 at 13:07
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it is dependent on what you develop. its better to have virtual linux machine if your production environment uses it.

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I am developing NodeJS web apps – pagewil Dec 19 '11 at 13:07
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