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by dandellion 1030 days ago
I did find solutions for my problems on Mac, but the solutions were hard to find, poorly documented, subscription based or a combination.

Meanwhile on Linux it is generally fairly easy to find what you need in the documentation or in the forums. It can be a bit more involved when using some very niche tools but it's not worse than the average Mac app I had to deal with.

I am not a very talented engineer. I'm a normal engineer who enjoys his craft, tries to do quality work and tries to be efficient. My opinion is based on my experience using Mac and Linux alternatively for the last 5 years doing development professionally.

I have seen very talented devs using Mac, but also others that were just as talented and complained when they were forced to switch from Linux to Mac. Hell, the smartest most talented developer I have ever met (by a mile) developed drivers on Windows and he told me that for the type of development he did Windows was all right.

I have to doubt that there is any correlation between how talented a developer is and the quality of a OS because most developers I know use what the company allows them, and it's somewhat rare to be allowed to choose.