Hopefully this won't be taken as an anti-MS rant. I've been developing exclusively on Microsoft's platforms for over 20 years.<p>But, if developing and hosting in a cloud environment doesn't convince you to go Linux, nothing will.<p>While for the most part as far as feature parity and development tools, AWS treats Windows developers like first class citizens. The "Windows Tax" is clear in AWS when you can see the cost difference between running the same instance size with Linux as Windows.<p>Even worse, realistically, running any Windows instance with less than 8GB of RAM is painful. Your minimum cost is $70 a month.<p>Being in the Windows world so long, I was amazed when I started using AWS and found how much you could do with relatively few resources in the Linux world.<p>I never cared before, I was using other people's money.<p>But I'm not leaving .Net Core, its made transistioning to Linux hosted development less painful.<p><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-update-more-instance-sizes-and-price-reductions/" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-update-mor...</a>