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by peternicky 2180 days ago
I’ve been unhappy with macOS and Apple for the past few years and in January switched back to developing on a windows PC. I could not be happier with that decision and with the “roadmap” Apple provided yesterday, I expect it will be a long time before I go back to macOS, if ever.
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defnotashton2 2180 days ago
I don't understand how you can get anything done without fighting windows nonsense proprietary tools.
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sudosysgen 2180 days ago
I've had to help people in my classes fight Apple nonsense proprietary tools because no one could understand why Apple won't let you open a file using your own code. If there wasn't anyone there that understood the issue (and that was almost the case) they'd have to use Windows.

Trust me, macOS is much worse on that front than Windows is. At least on Windows if you have issues with your OneDrive account folders won't start disappearing from your Desktop.

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nickv 2180 days ago
What does that mean? Windows ships with an entire subsystem for Linux, you can literally install any linux distro you want and it will run native inside windows with access to each others file systems, ports, etc - with basically no performance penalty (that I see in WSL2).

It is more Linux than OS X is by orders of magnitude.

And at their last conference they previewed native X Windows support in Windows. So you can literally start gimp in Windows from a zsh shell inside Arch. Couple that with their new faux tiling window manager in Powertoys (FancyZones), VSCode, native docker and kubernetes support, NFS support, their new terminal, etc - developing in Windows from a unix perspective is way way way way better than OS X in modern times.

What proprietary tools are you talking about?

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tootie 2180 days ago
You're complaining about proprietary tools in advocacy of Apple? Developing on Windows is a breeze. Unless you're specifically talking about Microsoft's dev stack (ie Visual Studio).
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peternicky 2180 days ago
Not sure what you are trying to say, windows like macOS is not perfect but with patience I was able to replicate my existing development workflows and improve some.

Which “nonsense” tools are you taking about?

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mrlala 2180 days ago
Uhhh.. what? Like, can you give some examples?
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goatinaboat 2180 days ago
Windows 10 with WSL on premium hardware like Surface is more Mac than Mac at this point
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