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by captainmuon 3520 days ago
> it works beautifully from day one

It depends on what kind of work you are doing, but for me this is not true. I need to do a lot of unix-ish development, so that means installing XCode (OK), installing Homebrew (or MacPorts or Fink and finding out which one is better), Sublime (or emacs or vi), a bunch of other tools. I need a week or so until I get it where I want it. This is not too different from my experience on Linux or Windows. Installing Linux is the easiest part - in fact, in most workplaces, you just give it to the IT department and they do it for you in a couple of hours.
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niteshade 3518 days ago
A week or so sounds a bit ridiculous. The only thing you need to do is install Xcode, then run a script which installs Homebrew. You can even use Homebrew Cask to install macOS apps, and MAS to install anything else from the App Store. All-in-all from installation to scripts completion, maybe an hour?

Source: Our IT department is a bit of a nightmare with Macs so I have to set them up for all our devs.

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