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Well, same could be said for Macs. I have both a Macbook and Surface. Windows has surpassed Mac at this point in dev friendliness due to WSL. I've got VS Code a
by mattwad 6y ago
Well, same could be said for Macs. I have both a Macbook and Surface. Windows has surpassed Mac at this point in dev friendliness due to WSL. I've got VS Code and Docker Desktop running remotely to WSL 2 and my Surface Pro is silent. Meanwhile, my Macbook's fan is raging right now with just a single VS Code window. That's very anecdotal, but I have a nice, native sandbox for all my work. It's honestly the best of both worlds. With Mac, every time I upgrade I have to re-install XCode just to compile some Node binaries and use Git. I could go on and on about how little Apple cares about devs, but we are clearly not the target audience. I haven't tried Linux in a while, but on its own it is still the worst of the three for everything that's not software development.
- treekogreen 6y agoThis is exactly what I have found. I know a bunch of developers (myself included) that went from Macs to Microsoft's surface line. WSL2 has been an absolute game changer, there's something liberating about being able to launch distros of Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora etc all faster than the computer wakes up from sleep, it's literally as fast as opening the command line. Microsoft has been making big moves for developers over the past years through open source contributions, Apple literally does not care about them and this sentiment can be seen explicitly on their respective GitHub pages.