• seitanic@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    I know so many web developers who use MacOS, and I think it must be because of the command line. It's like Linux is still too scary, even for professionals.

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      1 year ago

      Most web developers I've worked with do not know whay a computer is, unfortunately.

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      1 year ago

      I feel like I'm getting more and more on a limb using Linux as a dev. I'm working on a Linux only product and yet I'm the only one not on OS X and all the rest of them have to jump through hoops to get things to work, and can't run our system locally like I can. My last job was the same except 2 of us used Linux.

      I can't even work out what they're getting out of it apart from the hardware. But when I tell them that developing from Linux is easy and comfortable they don't believe me.

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        1 year ago

        I can't even work out what they're getting out of it apart from the hardware.

        You can run Linux on Macs, so they don't get that either

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        1 year ago

        This, and the general business ecosystem. Few companies even ship hardware with Linux support, especially at big business scale. I didn't even see an option from Dell any longer, Lenovo has one machine it looks like, so you'd be going for something like System76 which operates no where close to the same scale.

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      1 year ago

      professionals are more likely to prefer a locked down easy environment because of it's lack of variation the same way one would prefer a bare cli debian over a full featured distribution of even windows with all it's features and trinkets that can eat time away from the main task, mac os is bare and easy like a desk with nothing but a pen and clipboard, pretty bad if you want to fix a ventilator but perfect if you just want to write

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        There are lots of Linux distros like that, though. You could just get a cheap laptop and put Pop! OS on it for a fraction of the price.