What’s so shitty? I’ve been using Linux for over 20 years, and Mac for work over 5. I have my terminal under f12 (iterm2/Konsole), I have my ide on one desktop, my calendar, my email and my slack on a another and a browser on another. I barely notice any difference. Honestly I don’t mind it at all. In fact if my desktop died and had to replace it, I might get a Mac mini instead.
I have been using Linux since the 10th grade. But for work I’m using a Mac. Because I’m not only engineering, but doing other things related to work, having a Mac is more productive and practical.
That’s fair. I also wouldn’t wish serious Excel work on my worst enemy. But I understand someone has to do it, or the nightmare realm could escape the cell borders.
I see very little difference, but I am still more used to pacman compared to brew. It’s nice not having to care about hardware, although I haven’t had problems with Linux for the last decade, at least (using desktops and old laptops, I’m sure the new fancy ARM ones are a handful).
Also use Mac for work and personal. But I spend most of my time in neovim and the browser, so tbh I don’t really care what I use. I just like that I can answer texts from my Mac via iMessage. I haven’t tried them, but I think there are some i3 style window managers for macOS. That’s the next thing I would explore if I wanted a more Linux like experience.
I started doing my Xcode builds in CI, so I guess I’m not really tied to Mac anymore. In its current state, I’m more attached to the hardware than the software.
There’s an app called “rectangle”, I think it’s even open source, that allows you to tile windows in macos, I’ve been using it since day 1. Not exactly i3, but it does most of what I want so it doesn’t get in the way.
And to be honest on my desktop I’ve been using KDE for years, does enough tiling for my needs (usually just halves/quarters).
Ignoring prices, Mac is definitely the second best option after Linux for Linux-y development flows. None of my issues were huge, but still enough to ask for a Linux laptop for a replacement.
Very little customization, compared to Linux. I’m talking horizontal tiling window managers like Niri
Docker does not run natively, so you pay a hefty performance penalty with the VM
File name case insensitivity caused a bunch of Git issues
What’s so shitty? I’ve been using Linux for over 20 years, and Mac for work over 5. I have my terminal under f12 (iterm2/Konsole), I have my ide on one desktop, my calendar, my email and my slack on a another and a browser on another. I barely notice any difference. Honestly I don’t mind it at all. In fact if my desktop died and had to replace it, I might get a Mac mini instead.
I have been using Linux since the 10th grade. But for work I’m using a Mac. Because I’m not only engineering, but doing other things related to work, having a Mac is more productive and practical.
I used to do the same, but lately every office thing is browser based, and I find the Linux and Mac experiences are identical.
The web version of Office is so scuffed. I wouldn’t wish trying to do any serious Excel work with the web version on my worst enemy.
That’s fair. I also wouldn’t wish serious Excel work on my worst enemy. But I understand someone has to do it, or the nightmare realm could escape the cell borders.
LibreOffice can do everything Excel can except for BI, so…
I see very little difference, but I am still more used to pacman compared to brew. It’s nice not having to care about hardware, although I haven’t had problems with Linux for the last decade, at least (using desktops and old laptops, I’m sure the new fancy ARM ones are a handful).
Also use Mac for work and personal. But I spend most of my time in neovim and the browser, so tbh I don’t really care what I use. I just like that I can answer texts from my Mac via iMessage. I haven’t tried them, but I think there are some i3 style window managers for macOS. That’s the next thing I would explore if I wanted a more Linux like experience.
I started doing my Xcode builds in CI, so I guess I’m not really tied to Mac anymore. In its current state, I’m more attached to the hardware than the software.
Codemagic? I’ve made some pokes at using that for iOS builds with middling luck.
I’m using Fastlane, which I’m running via GitHub actions triggered by git tag.
I might give that a try, thanks for the reply. Codemagic is a bit complicated though I did seem to get it to work with a git tag increment as well.
Doing anything in that iOS environment is like pulling teeth it seems.
There’s an app called “rectangle”, I think it’s even open source, that allows you to tile windows in macos, I’ve been using it since day 1. Not exactly i3, but it does most of what I want so it doesn’t get in the way.
And to be honest on my desktop I’ve been using KDE for years, does enough tiling for my needs (usually just halves/quarters).
Ignoring prices, Mac is definitely the second best option after Linux for Linux-y development flows. None of my issues were huge, but still enough to ask for a Linux laptop for a replacement.
Fair enough. I do run my docker containers in a real Linux, either homelab or EC2.