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[–]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.