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by metta2uall 1260 days ago
I was "compelled" to get MacOS as I develop an iOS app using flutter. I needed a lightweight power-efficient laptop so got a second-hand 8GB M1 and can fairly comfortably develop (VSCode + dotnet + nodejs + many tabs in firefox) inside a Debian VM running i3 with zram & UTM... Perhaps it depends on how memory-hungry one's development actually is - a massive Java Eclipse project might not work nearly as well.