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More productive in what exactly? What are you developing? What problems you had with OSX? (not meant to be offensive, just curious)
by cztomsik 8y ago
More productive in what exactly? What are you developing? What problems you had with OSX? (not meant to be offensive, just curious)
- philips 8y agoMore productive because I don't spend time fighting all of the little silly OSX to Linux incompatibilities in a dev environment. Things like: - sed / grep flags - path issues compiling some C module or node module - homebrew missing obscure package These aren't things that kill productivity on the regular but once a month I found myself going down some rabbit hole or another fixing things like that. I develop a range of stuff from the Kubernetes ecosystem, etcd, frontend software, and the occasional embedded side project. Also, I rarely use any OSX native applications outside of a browser, password manager, and music app anymore. So, none of these workflows changed and some improved since now I have identical apps on my phone and laptop thanks to Android.
- cztomsik 8y agofair point, I can't tell anything other than that I was so far lucky. I do a lot of web/node development and none of the issues was yet related to OSX (for the whole 4-5 years I'm on mac). you're 100% correct that apple has crippled version of some tools but it's possible to replace them from brew but I think I know where you're heading - it's probably just easier to use linux when you're doing these things - just like I was switching to mac when I wanted to do node. BTW: I was switching from windows, not from linux, I actually think linux is fine and I'm happily using it on other machines, just not on this one :-)