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by ohazi
1990 days ago
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I think it's more inertia than any of these things. The entire point of this thread is that (a) is false -- see grandparent and the xkcd joke. It's not easy. It pretends to be easy, but is usually broken in some crazy way instead. Apt is also easy, but it actually works more often than not. (c) was relevant in 2006, when the novelty of OS X was that it was a UNIX that you could actually use as a daily driver. This is what initially got developers to move to Mac. But it's been fifteen years, and all jokes aside, the "year of the Linux desktop" for developers was probably around 2012. Linux may still have issues, but they're not worse than the hoops you have to jump through to make today's macOS behave. Trendy tech companies are still buying macbook pros for their employees because that's what's been trendy for the last decade, not because they actually ask new hires what they prefer. Practical tech companies do, and at places like that you usually see a mix of macs and thinkpads. |
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I've used Linux for close to 20+ years, and Unices more, and never had to jump through any major hoops to make macOS behave.
What would those be (talking about something major, not "I can't get my favorite window manager to replace the macOS window management" -- the non-tinkering-friendliness is part of the allure to me and from what I read others too)?
On the other hand, Linux on the desktop never fails to dissapoint me in one way or another because of the need of tinkering, half-sketched apps for many things I want to do (especially anything multimedia and/or document related), driver issues to get things working (sound, compositor, 3D, bluetooth, sleep, etc), and so on. And judging from the everpresent "just use <name of another distro>" in the relevent forums, it's not something others don't have.
Thus I prefer to stick to Linux on the server and Docker, or for setups where I have investigated the hardware in advance, and only mean to use basic things (e.g. happy with just some terminals, emacs/vim, i3, and some mp3 playing).
>not because they actually ask new hires what they prefer.
Those that do found that hires generally prefer Macs. That's how they have ~ 50% of the dev surveys on Stack Overflow whereas they're just 10% of the general market...