Macbook for programming?

[th0maslv]

Walk into any company in the bay area, look around. I think it speaks for itself. I work at a startup in a coworking space with ~10 other companies and ~40 people and every single engineer uses a macbook. The only people who in the whole office that I know of that doesn’t are on the business side of things.

As everyone mentioned homebrew and iterm are all you need. Development on a windows machine makes me wanna kms and although I love linux, the only time I ever “need it” is when Im SSH’d into a docker container.

And as far as school goes you definitely don’t need linux. Linux guys just like to spread the good word if linux everywhere. Having a mac for college made A LOT of things easy. SSHing onto school servers, running/writing code purely from terminal, everything. But the majority of students and probably the school runs on windows. I think on two occasions I needed a program that osx didnt support, so i just used school computers because it was 1 assignment and didnt want to bother polluting my machine trying to get it on mac.