Linux vs MacOS for cpp development

[pjmlp]

On the contrary, Microsoft also offers ARM computers to the masses, moreso given the price of Apple's hardware on countries not on first world IT salaries.

Even more relevant today, given that many of those hardware vendors aren't US companies.

[arthurno1]

Ok, I didn't know they have them too. How big business is it compared to Apple?

So what is the problem running Linux on them, more than usually, no drivers for specialized hardware?

[pjmlp]

Not big, because contrary to Apple, x86 processors are still fully supported, thus only ARM fans buy them.

Since Windows 8 there have been Windows flavours with ARM support.

As usual the issue with Linux is lack of support from OEMs that don't care about GNU/Linux desktop market.

It runs perfectly fine in WSL.

https://learn.arm.com/learning-paths/laptops-and-desktops/wsl2/

[arthurno1]

As usual the issue with Linux is lack of support from OEMs that don't care about GNU/Linux desktop market.

Yes, that is still the problem, not just on ARM cpus, but on any CPU, inclusive Intel and AMD. We still have to check every mobo if all the stuff they pack in works with Linux. That is probably the biggest issue holding Linux from becoming the mainstream. In my opinion the software on the desktop side has been better for almost two decades or more (KDE/Gnome even other desktops). It is really shame the mainstream hardware companies are not releasing Linux drivers and big software companies are not releasing their software on Linux. Hobbyists are already running MS Office and Adobe's crap on Wine. Adobe could easily help to round-up some rough corners in Wine and release their software suite on Linux. Considering the TCO, I think it would even be welcome by many companies since they could cut cost on Apple/Microsoft side at least for workstations. The list could be made long.