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They're not competitors in the segment of the market providing macOS, because they don't run it. Some people will be willing to look past it, but it's still a
by TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
They're not competitors in the segment of the market providing macOS, because they don't run it.
Some people will be willing to look past it, but it's still a huge advantage for Apple. When I'm choosing my next laptop, though the Surface and the Dell XPS might seem nice, neither of them run macOS, and that's probably a dealbreaker for me unless Apple's laptops get really far away from my needs.
- brianwawok 10y agoSwitched to do a 13 and ubuntu finally. For a dev, we have another choice at least.
- zeveb 10y ago> neither of them run macOS, and that's probably a dealbreaker for me I strongly suggest that you give Linux a shot. Depending on the distro, it can be very nice, and it means that you get to keep both your money and your freedom, which I really appreciate.
- valuearb 10y agoApplications matter.
- zeveb 10y agoYou're not wrong, but all the applications I care about run on Linux: - emacs - vi - zsh - st - SBCL - tmux - Inkscape - sxiv - Firefox - Gnucash - GraphicsMagick - Nethack - Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - Minecraft Of those, only Minecraft isn't developed on Linux first (and maybe Firefox, depending on how you define that condition). I can be productive. I can read email (in emacs, of course!). I can play games. I can read documents. I can browse the Web. I feel as though my needs have been met.
- valuearb 10y agoThat's what makes you a representative of a tiny minority. I've spent part of a career writing software for people whose daily workflows required Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, and a dozen other supporting applications, and they always ran much better on MacOS and were far easier to use and train people to use. But even those people are still a tiny minority, where most of the world revolves around MSFT Office and hundreds of applications on Windows.
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- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoI am bemused by your suggestion I haven't used Linux before. I switched to OS X after having switched back and forth between Windows and Linux for several years, always getting upset with each other's deficiencies.
- stcredzero 10y agoI switched to OS X after having switched back and forth between Windows and Linux for several years, always getting upset with each other's deficiencies. Same thing happened to me in the early 2000's. I also just bought a Windows gaming laptop with a GTX 1070 GPU to do VR development, but I find I still find my non-VR experience as a dev and a user superior with my 2012 Macbook Pro!