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Have people switched back to using PCs for development, especially since they're staying at home with the covid-19 lockdown? Or is it still mostly a Mac market,
by sylens 7y ago
Have people switched back to using PCs for development, especially since they're staying at home with the covid-19 lockdown? Or is it still mostly a Mac market, despite having to fork over nearly three grand for an eight core workstation?
- azangru 7y ago> especially since they're staying at home with the covid-19 lockdown Are you asking whether people have been buying a lot of PCs over the last month or two? I don't have the stats, but I suspect the answer would be no.
- sylens 7y agoI guess I should've clarified - have they been using their desktops more than before was my intention.
- burnte 7y agoYou would be wrong to a surprising degree. Stores have been limiting the number of laptops, prebuilt desktops, and monitors people can buy at once, and makers like Dell and Lenovo saw a huge spike in shipments, so much that they have even raised prices. VARs are having a hard time keeping things in stock.
- azangru 7y agoInteresting! I had no idea.
- iso1631 7y agoNot sure why you've been voted down so much, but as a home worker I certainly prefer my fairly beefy 4 year old desktop to a modern laptop - more memory, more cpu. I guess the question is how long home working will remain, but talking to my team earlier, those of us who do work from home are set up with multiple monitors, decent ergonimics, and a decent work location. Those who go to the office are working in random locations and finding things far harder.
- wayneftw 7y ago> Or is it still mostly a Mac market... When has the Mac occupied the most of any market? Most programmers don't run a Mac. Never have. The vast majority of programmers are on Windows with Mac as a distant second and Linux third.
- fossuser 7y agoIs this actually true? It’s the opposite of my lived experience, but that might just be a Silicon Valley bubble. Everyone here uses macOS or Linux. Windows is rare outside of specific domains that require it.
- wayneftw 7y agoYes I believe it is true. Here are the results for this year from StackOverflow's survey - https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-developers-primary-operating-systems https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-... On the east coast, I'd say that most of the programmers I've worked with in IT departments for Finance, Health and Pharma companies are not using Macs - but in my office, a dedicated software consulting firm where the owner has tried to emulate Google - about 2/3 of us use Macs. Personally, I can use any of them to get my job done but right now I prefer a Linux with XFCE.
- fossuser 7y agoInteresting - from that if you combine the macOS and Linux users together they do make up the majority which may be why I thought they were an even larger percentage overall. Though I bet if this survey was restricted to the bay area the percentage would be even higher.
- ChuckNorris89 7y agoMacs as development machines is a SV/US bubble. In Europe most development is done on Windows by a long shot with linux second and Mac a distant third.
- JabavuAdams 7y agoFired up the desktop to do some Folding@Home and also to work with Unity while I continue to use my MacBookPro as my main work machine. Desktop is now stuck in a Windows 10 reboot loop after I foolishly allowed it to install updates.