[fit2rule]

I think OSX is a great development environment, it supports a great many toolsets and frameworks, and so on .. you don't have to go exclusively the Apple way, though that is changing more and more .. it is still a user-controlled Platform.

But the overlooked thing in this discussion is that its mostly about hardware. If someone made a hardware, physical device, that was as comfortable and life-friendly as a Macbook Pro, I'd switch to it in an instance. The Google pixel laptop looked promising, but was hobbled by sub-standard specs and a 'meh' attitude, it seems, but the point is whats overlooked is the physical experience that comes with using OSX.

So I'm with you, there's nothing quite like having the slab ramped up with some fat VM's. Linux works great in that environment, too ..