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		Polylactic_acid on April 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I think Catalina 10.15.4 broke SSH Windows is not "absolutely fine". Ignoring the garbage heap of bad/inconsistent ui/adverts/nagware. Its just not even capable of running a lot of dev software. The guide for running ruby on rails on windows is basically just to install a linux VM.

vbezhenar on April 1, 2020 | [–]

I'm running a lot of dev software and I never had to revert to Linux VM.

https://rubyinstaller.org/ Ruby for Windows.

I don't know why Ruby on Rails require Linux, but those reasons are not technical.

pjmlp on April 1, 2020 | [–]

It runs perfectly fine lot of developer software, for those of us that are Windows developers first, and something else secondly.

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