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I'm surprised that so many people use them even today. Unless you're fully ingrained into the Mac ecosystem, there are just too many idiosyncrasies that make mo

I'm surprised that so many people use them even today. Unless you're fully ingrained into the Mac ecosystem, there are just too many idiosyncrasies that make moving between platforms in possible, like the use of the 'command' key which no other platform in the world uses, or the weird placement of the control key which completely negates years of muscle memory (a trend which some Windows laptops are unfortunately beginning to follow, even in business-class machines; thankfully mine at least lets me rebind it in the BIOS). Honest question for people who develop on Macs: Do you exclusively develop on them, or have you just learned to put up with differences between it and Linux/Windows?

lewiscollard 10y ago
I use a MBP[1] at my day job and Linux on my personal machines.[2] I am a developer at a digital design agency so my priorities may not line up with those of other developers, but MBPs rock for what I do because: 1) Photoshop (the designers use Photoshop, so this largely rules out using Linux boxes) 2) Extremely colour-accurate display out of the box (PC displays have always been a bit of a crapshoot on this count in my experience) 3) Being Unix 3a) A real command line (admittedly I haven't tried the Ubuntu-on-Windows thing) 4) I'm not paying for it! Speaking only for me, switching between using two platforms has really not a problem for me - I do it every day. When I first went into this job I was worried that a Mac was going to be a very difficult transition to make, but it turned out to be straightforward - just needed a little muscle-memory retraining :) [1] Never really sure if this should be "an" or "a"... [2] Written from my 2006 Thinkpad of Death :) (edited: linebreaks)