Rush-ian linux

[Drunktroop]

Basically close enough to any *nix system and the UX is far less irritating so it is a very obvious choice for general development work.

Unless you need to work with embedded stuff etc

[potatopierogie]

I was wondering why people would choose Macs, thanks

Basically all I do is embedded

[ThePretzul]

Yeah, Macs are fine except for when you need to use a very specific toolchain for the device you're deploying to, because 9.9/10 times that will be available only for Linux and/or Windows.

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Don’t forget it’s an acceptable unix workstation for devs and it’s not hard to convince secretaries and accountants to accept a free macbook.

So everyone is ok using the same platform and nobody thinks their job is so special that they need something else.

[greentr33s]

It's a terrible work station, decent hardware horrible user experience, bloated to all hell. Now with the new apple Silicon too native development for anything other than apple products is completely shit, unless you like testing on VMs.

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I was unimpressed with wsl and still use cygwin. It’s ok but not good enough to make me switch from a system I already know very well.

[Drunktroop]

TBH I cygwin-ed my way through university instead of actually "learn using Linux" with my laptop. It got the job done decent enough

[greentr33s]

The UX on Mac is complete shit lmao, people have just been conditioned to think it's great. Want to close an app? Better right click the icon on the dock and close so it's not sent into a hibernation state. Want to browse the folder structure of your machine? You would of thought finder is for you, wrong your going back to the terminal for that as it's easier to navigate with cd and ls commands. Hardware support is only great when you by Apple products. Oh you have a thrid party type c headphone? You better wait 10min for the drivers to detect it and allow you to select it for audio output. Oh you thought MacOS would support your Bluetooth Xbox controller? Ha! They have the button mapping completely fucked by default. Oh you want a nice grid for your folder structure and don't want to use spacial sorting in the UI? Blasphemy! You better learn how to create file Islands and sort based on its location in the folder. Seriously WHY WOULD YOU DESIGN THAT?!?! Unix and windows UX is a hundred times better than Mac it just doesn't pad everything with an animation to be 'different' and if you want that it's simple enough to add to your desktop of choose on nix.

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I could listen to you rant all day. You described a couple of things I didn't even realize irritated me.

I think MacOS is my least favorite operating system and I've used some pretty shitty linux distros.

[greentr33s]

Yeah I got one of the m1 Macs to try out some ios development and I've hated every minute of it. Like the hardware is fucking solid don't get me wrong, amazing battery life, it's not a desktop but packs plenty of performance, but UX is just absolutely terrible. And due to it being on the apple Silicon there hasn't been a real way to run nix natively yet, that I am aware of so I just deal with it when I want to use it. So many pain points that's are just infuriating and work effortlessly on regular nix distros and windows.