Using linux has slight advantages only for devops, and even then why would they need it if they can spin up an ec2/run a docker container/use vagrant. Mac OS o

Using linux has slight advantages only for devops, and even then why would they need it if they can spin up an ec2/run a docker container/use vagrant. Mac OS offers superior UX to linux (unless you invest heaps of engineering hours into setting it up your window manager & env to a usable state). More modern distributions like Mint or Elementary OS might offer somethnig on par, but even then the simplicity and ubiquity of Macs fade their benefits. The only reason to use Linux is for extra op security, but that's not what programmers main concern usually is.