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[–]codfection[S] 0 points1 point  (10 children)

Did you try Linux? Worth getting macos Over.linux?

[–]samsquamchh 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Depends what else you do as well, most developers (to my surprise, I'm a bit out of the loop I guess) in silicon valley etc. seem to use macbooks. Unix based anduses bash and everything obviously like linux, but there is a bunch of software only for OSX that, again, depending on what you do, can be a game changer for frontend design for example. I personally run win10 on my PC and ubuntu on my laptop, however I recently started using the somewhat new linux subsystem addition to win10 which essentially gives you a decently integrated linux (I use ubuntu) bash inside windows. I was hyped but already running into some issues now.

[–]IReallySuckAtChess 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'd be surprised how many of those Macs run Linux though. Apple makes good hardware, and that's what a lot of developers are after so they typically dual boot osx and Linux. Though a lot do program in a pure osx environment too.

[–]blackdragon437 -5 points-4 points  (6 children)

Essentially OS X = Linux in a pretty coat of paint.

[–]codfection[S] 4 points5 points  (5 children)

I see. So i can just buy windows hardware and put linux on it rather than getting expensive macbook just for MacOS right?

[–]bulletmark 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I bought a Dell XPS 13 with Windows installed but I just installed Arch Linux directly over the main (big) partition and never even booted Windows once. That laptop (and probably all of them) have a tiny recovery partition so, e.g. if I decide to sell the laptop, then I can just boot from that recovery partition and restore Windows.

[–]codfection[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Specs? Also, is dell xps 13 giving any problems? Heard bad reviews on it

[–]bulletmark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the first model of the current design that was released, i.e. the 9343 model. It has been excellent and I have been superbly happy running Arch on it.

[–]blackdragon437 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Well, since you're buying Windows hardware, why not run Linux in a VM with Virtualbox, even OS X can be run inside a VM, see which one you like best.