I have been given a windows laptop at work to work on a web app using flask which involves a little bit of computer vision and nlp as well. I wanted to take this chance to transition to the command style in linux. Since it is my office laptop I am not allowed to dual boot or install anything unless it is specified. So I was wondering if gitbash can be used to transition to linux commands instead of the windows cmd or the anaconda prompt? I did try using gitbash but other than commits it is a hassle when using pip or sudo. Many times it does not recognize the command even though i have the python scripts added in PATH but it still isnt working with sudo and python. I felt i will face similar issues ahead so wanted to know if it is a good idea at all to use gitbash to practice transitioning to linux or is there any other alternate which is more smooth and hassle less.

CodePudding user response：

In my experience the best way to learn Linux when you only have Windows installed is to use either Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or to use Linux-based Docker containers.

gitbash won't offer the full functionality of Linux, since it is largely relies on the binary commands and various components of Windows.

Docker has a number of other benefits. For example if your Flask application is Dockerised, it would make it easier to deploy on the server when needed.