It doesn’t make sense to stay locked into the Mac environment unless the hardware is incredible or you need to develop iOS applications.
When I started at my last job, I asked for a mac; I worked on Linux, Windows (wsl), and wanted a change. Most of my collegues (in the dev team) initially asked for a windows PC, but literally everyone ended up on Mac.
Windows is only usable when the WSL is set up and then you basically work exclusively on that VM lol, I literally cannot understand how anyone puts up with this OS. Any other OS is excellent just by comparison.
obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 1 day ago
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
MacOS doesn’t really lock you at all though, and you’re free to dev for pretty much any software there, iOS or not
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It’s not really a matter of preference. I’m a mechanical engineer, not a developer, and several industry-standard programs are only available for windows, so it doesn’t really matter if I’d like to use a different OS.
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Oh yeah I’m aware that some professionals are essentially locked to a single platform (same goes with accounting and Excel), I can only hope that the industries this affects start taking Linux more seriously (or Mac, but tbh once you’re running on Mac it’s less of a leap to work on Linux)