And you, what’s your operating system to code ? Me, I use Arch btw

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Ooh thank you @PipedLinkBot I didn’t know that

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Why bother with a front-end? This vlogger’s on peertube, as @ozoned mentioned: https://tilvids.com/w/995NqXZXXshptUnwZNcbKi

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I moved so Microsoft doesn’t spy on literally everything I do. For programming it does seem to be easy to discover new things when you are part of different linux circles.

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I wish the company I worked for would let us use Linux. Mac dev only. :(

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Better than Windows at least

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Nah these days with wsl, I prefer windows over Mac. At least you get packages that have been updated in the past decade.

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What packages are you missing? With brew you can get most things

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WSL has been super garbage for me with the WM closing without warning to update and if you don’t limit the ram usage it just takes everything available because it just doesn’t free memory that isn’t using anymore. Two issues that have been open on the repository for a long time.

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Hell nah. Personally, mac os is the most frustrating of the bunch to use.

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I switched over to MacOs about 3 months ago now for dev work and I’ve really been enjoying it so far. Except when there are weird hiccups, but they’ve been getting better as I get more familiar with it

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i used to have this opinion, i dont after having to use a mac for a few months. id take windows+wsl any day.

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I care about freedom. In that regard, mac is easily the worst of the three. Also, it kinda combines the downsides of both:

  1. Being proprietary crap that tries to force you into using it a specific way and does shit in the background nobody ever asked for
  2. Not being compatible with some proprietary soft- or hardware

I hate windows with a passion but would take it anytime if mac would be the only other option.

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Every windows machine a job has given me has been a hunk of garbage. At least Mac hardware has a floor of quality. Not perfect by any means, but at least the battery lasts and there’s basic horsepower.

Also every windows machine has been with a fossilized company that has tons of IT bloat with tons of spyware authentication shit on it. Hell I had to file (and fight for) wsl privileges on my current windows machine

The Macs I’ve gotten have been brand new, straight from the manufacturer.

I’m sure that’s just luck of the draw but yeah fuck windows shops hah

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In what way does it limit your freedom? When I first tried OSX I was quite surprised at how customizable it actually is, contrary to all the talk I heard about it.

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No.

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Being built on nix doesn’t mean it’s similar, just that they have some commands in common.

I miss my Linux dev machine daily.

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They are both UNIXes, that’s quite a lot of similarity and I wouldn’t write it off that fast.

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Also arch when I can help it.

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We use CentOS for work.

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